About Patrick Losey
NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 8, 2024
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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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 1, 2024
Slaughter on a grand scale is always appalling, but World War II was the most abominable blood purge of them all. “Fifty Years After 14 August” broadcast August 1995 on NPR ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 25, 2024
A question to ask at the edge of a new millennium: What other nation, before or since, has ever called out, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?” “Our L ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 18, 2024
A citizen of the world, when he becomes one, (and there are no formalities about it—it happens gradually, like growing up) lets himself in for a fairly sobering experience. He finds that an awful lot ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 11, 2024
They’re dead as clay for the rights of men, For people the likes of you, And they ask that we do not fail them again Tomorrow, tomorrow. “14 August” as published in the book “Untitled and Other Radi ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 4, 2024
Canned laughter is a form of self-praise. It has the advantage over external praise of being able to be laid on thickly and in the right places. “Can the Laughter” from the book Holes in a Stai ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 28, 2024
But Honorable Judges, the office of pimp is performed by purveyors of distinction, since their labors gratify not merely one, but three parties; to wit, the seeker of recreation; the willing collabora ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 21, 2024
Tell him the choice rests in the care of what fragile peace we have, including his trusteeship, if he but live to his majority. One or nothing, wealth or laying waster; Jew or Gentile’ men or the colo ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 14, 2024
In addition to making little of big things, trivialization can also make big of little things. A classic example out of ancient history was the Trojan war, fought for over ten years, we are told, over ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 7, 2024
I have always suspected that war as we know it and have practiced it and as others have practiced it, that young men die of the mistakes of old men. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview wi ...
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