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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 29, 2024
Ah, well, there are no rents or levies in cardboard housing; the only taxes are on health and dignity. Certain amenities are absent, such as walls and a roof, yet the floor is always firm—authentic si ...
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The ultimate in trivialization is to reduce the capacity and will of people to think for themselves. In that exercise mediocritization has always had its strongest support, corroboration and collabora ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 15, 2024
Beaches without beachheads. Jobs without sergeants. Gunners who tilted the guns of battleships and stoked them in epic combat, will ride the level ferries of bay and river. “Fifty Years After 14 Augus ...
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Broadcasters are invariably miffed by criticism of their product and practices, and they protest as invariably that they are only giving people what they want. But the people have been conditioned to ...
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I never have an outline before I begin. It’s all chaos. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 24, 2024
Man is the only animal that smiles, and Americans are the only people who have made an industry of it. “Ready, Aim, Smile” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 17, 2024
However, in the matter of the kid who used to deliver folded newspapers to your doorstep, flipping them sideways from his bicycle, And who died on a jeep in the Ruhr, There is no fixed price, and no a ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 10, 2024
I love irony, I must say. I feel like Luke Skywalker wielding his light sword. The weapon is something I love to use, but I don’t think I can be charged with using it improperly. I hoped to use it eff ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 3, 2024
For transmitters and presses are not only mechanisms but vehicles—carriers of whatever content is poured into them. They are purveyors of the Word, the ideology, the big or little lie, credulity, or t ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 27, 2024
The enemy is indeed tangible. Disease is an enemy. It has killed more people than armies. “Could Be” from the book “Overkill and Megalove” (1963) also the 1949 radio broadcast ...
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