NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 11, 2021
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 July 4, 2021
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 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 27, 2021
A citizen of the world, when he becomes one, (and there are no formalities about it—it happens gradually, like growing up) lets himself in for a fairly sobering experience. He fin ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 20, 2021
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 H ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 13, 2021
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; ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 6, 2021
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 “Unti ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 30, 2021
We print your name on dollars And are sure you stand over everything we say is under God ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 23, 2021
Tell him the choice rests in the care of what fragile peace we have, including his trusteeship, if he but live to his majority. One or nothing, wealth or laying waster; Jew or Gen ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 16, 2021
In addition to making little of big things, trivialization can also make big of little things. A classic example out of ancient history was the Trojan war, fought for over ten yea ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 9, 2021
I have always suspected that war as we know it and have practiced it and as others have practiced it, that young men die of the mistakes of old men. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: A ...
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