NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 15, 2024
Beaches without beachheads. Jobs without sergeants. Gunners who tilted the guns of battleships and stoked them in epic combat, will ride the level ferries of bay and river. “Fifty ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 8, 2024
Broadcasters are invariably miffed by criticism of their product and practices, and they protest as invariably that they are only giving people what they want. But the people have ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 1, 2024
I never have an outline before I begin. It’s all chaos. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 24, 2024
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 November 17, 2024
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 10, 2024
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. ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 3, 2024
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 27, 2024
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 October 20, 2024
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 sw ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 13, 2024
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 opportun ...
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