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I think Willa Cather did a short story called "Paul's Case," and in it, when he finally commits suicide, it says, "He surrendered to the black design of things." And that's what I anticipate death will be: a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything. I think once around is enough. I don't want to start it all over again.

Rod Serling's Popular Quotes

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

- Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

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Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

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If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sy…

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Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

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For the record, prejudices can kill, and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the…

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I'm a Western-cultured man who subscribes to the ancient saw that men do not cry, I don't cry either. I'll go to a movie, for example, and not infreq…

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In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

- Rod Serling