About Patrick Losey
NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 2, 2014
Mediocrity is a business, like making low-quality shirts for low-income consumers at a low price. With this important difference—mediocrity cuts across all arts and professions, all layers of society, ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 26, 2014
The furies work impartially against both of us. The main difference is that when Quixote is enchanted, he’s simply out of his head, whereas when I’m enchanted, I’m just out of luck. Miguel de Cervan ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 19 2014
The due rank of peace is proudest above all earthly dignities. Believe it, and ensue it so. “Not Choose Not” from the book Overkill and Megalove (1963) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 12, 2014
This country was fortunate in having been created by a band of courageous, idealistic, intelligent men. There are few countries that can point to their origins with the same sense of pride that we can ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 5, 2014
Just as madmen do not think they are mad, and bores think they are fascinating, pedants are never aware of their pedantry. “Pilpul ” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 28, 2014
So all in all we have been careless caretakers of our ward. We have slashed forests, dirtied skies, drained wetlands, overgrazed pastures, stunted mountains, acidified rain, degraded rivers, turned ci ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 21, 2014
A question to ask at the edge of a new millennium: What other nation, before or since, has ever called out, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?” “Our L ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 14, 2014
The ear is the organ through which we perceive the subtlest of the arts, which is music. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin” December 28, 2004 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 7, 2014
War …the fiercest face in the rogue’s gallery of world problems—king of the beasts—and trailing behind it, Disease, Famine, Poverty, Erosion, Overpopulation…but every one of these problems has been ar ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 31, 2014
We are pious about the right to dissent except where it crosses church or state, offends company management, is critical of the Pentagon, the presidency, the two-party system, congressional committees ...
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