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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 22, 2015
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 March 15, 2015
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 March 8, 2015
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 March 1, 2015
Your Honor, if we exalt priests, who are stewards of a dubious peace on earth, why should we not honor pimps, who are intermediaries of a peace in bed? Pimps are but prompters of the carnal dialogue w ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 22, 2015
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 February 15, 2015
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 February 8, 2015
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 February 1, 2015
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 January 25, 2015
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 January 18, 2015
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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