About Patrick Losey
NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 2, 2018
The lingo is polite as varnish, Sincere as the wax-faced undertaker saying, “We are sorry about your loss.” And after the notes are exchanged, and high respects transmitted like wires on Mothers Day, ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 26, 2018
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) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 19, 2018
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 August 12, 2018
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 August 5, 2018
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 July 29, 2018
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 July 22, 2018
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 July 15, 2018
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 Wind ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 8, 2018
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 1, 2018
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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