About Patrick Losey
NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 26, 2021
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 19, 2021
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 12, 2021
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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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 5, 2021
Our spirit of liberalism had been as ruthlessly suppressed as anywhere in the world, short of the kind of torture and murder that you find in the truly benighted countries. The swing to the right that ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 29, 2021
Mediocrity is, above all, comfortable. It makes modest demands on the powers of perception and ratiocination, and none at all on creativity. This translates into business opportunities—to supply insta ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 22, 2021
The staff organist at the electric console of the average ball park ranks somewhere between a public nuisance and a public enemy. “Beisbol, Anyone?” from the book “Holes in a Stained Glass Window” (19 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 15, 2021
Charity toward the enemy in war is less common than tap-dancing on quicksand, but there are never any bounds to cruelty. All it takes to excel at it is power, opportunity and vileness. “Fifty Years Af ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 8, 2021
And greetings, immigrant multitudes who were bid good morrows and good fortune by the Statue—the millions who came, saw, toiled and begat, who created as descent a society as ever this venerable world ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 1, 2021
Odds in battle are at best ridiculous, like rolling warped dice on a lumpy table. The ultimate risk of the gamble is of course loss of everything, with no chance to recoup—known, metaphorically, as De ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 25, 2021
I am very much bothered by lapses of taste. Taste is exercised every time that you put a word down. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
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