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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 20, 2015
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 September 13, 2015
The writer who labors at elegance and preens himself on arcane language, knows that he is placing a screen between himself and his reader. “Pilpul ” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 6, 2015
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 August 30, 2015
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 August 23, 2015
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 August 16, 2015
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 August 9, 2015
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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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 2, 2015
The tankman will drive a powered lawn mower while his father watches. The pilot with many missions will do errands for some civilian company. The bombardier, who crushed a city in a blinding instant, ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 26, 2015
Fate and fission were on our side. The wrath of the atom fell like a commandment, and the very planet quivered with implications. “Fifty Years After 14 August” broadcast August 1995 on NPR ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 19, 2015
For transmitters and presses are not only mechanisms but vehicles—carriers of whatever content is poured into them. They are purveyors of the Word, the ideology, the big or little lie, credulity, or t ...
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