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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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. ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »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 ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 6, 2024
The staff organist at the electric console of the average ball park ranks somewhere between a public nuisance and a public enemy. “Beisbol, Anyone?” from the book “Holes in a Stai ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 29, 2024
Charity toward the enemy in war is less common than tap-dancing on quicksand, but there are never any bounds to cruelty. All it takes to excel at it is power, opportunity and vile ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 22, 2024
And greetings, immigrant multitudes who were bid good morrows and good fortune by the Statue—the millions who came, saw, toiled and begat, who created as descent a society as ever ...
Read More »NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 15, 2024
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, ...
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