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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 20, 2019
There are no inexorable laws in art. The laws are made to be broken, creatively. And when there is an unvarying obedience to laws of that kind, you invite a kind of stagnation. From the book, “ ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 13, 2019
The military mind likes nothing better than a chance to experiment, to rehearse, test and prove new weapons under optimum conditions. The guinea pig in these experiments is always world peace, and the ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 6, 2019
The fact is that schools have always been influenced, if not controlled, by the best or worst ideals of national character, a process that conveys to pupils and indoctrinates in them the elements whic ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 30, 2018
It slanders hell to compare it to war, because the hell of mythology and religion, although superheated and stocked with torments, are in their way, discreet and proper. Only the wicked are punished. ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 23, 2018
Millennium Three, please learn, and learn fast, that the regimented years whisk us off fast enough, as do antagonisms of chance, want, hunger, crime, fire, flood, earthquake, and killing winds. Nature ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 16, 2018
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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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 9, 2018
Avoidance of pain sounds attractive, but it easily translates into avoidance of responsibility, a running away from the very realities to which we must we must be educated, and against which we would ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 2, 2018
My worry is that we are on a course of decline, notwithstanding our armaments and our per capita income and the number of telephones and automobiles we have. From the book, “Years of the Electr ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 25, 2018
All is accounted for except the farmer’s boy and the mill hand who lived near the canal, and the young men from the city block where the gutters fry in summer. One of them sleeps with sa ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 18, 2018
There is to me something ungracious, not only in style but in manners, about the use of words that the writer knows very well are Greek to the general reader. “Smith and the Snobs” from the boo ...
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