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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 24, 2018
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 June 17, 2018
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 June 10, 2018
General Electric is now the owner of NBC. This kind of thing can only have a deleterious effect that will filter down to the individual artist and hurt him. Hurt us all. From the book, “Years o ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 3, 2018
In the beginning was the word. In the end let’s not have baloney. “Piffle” from the book Holes in a Stained Glass Window (1978) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 27, 2018
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 May 20, 2018
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 May 13, 2018
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 May 6, 2018
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 April 29, 2018
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 April 22, 2018
Brothers, we are brothers all Except for one or two: The nigger and the indian and then of course the jew For every one the Open Door O, welcome all alike! Except the chink and several more Including ...
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