NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 13, 2020
As a people, as a culture, we have become so alienated from poetry that whenever a playwright has the pluck to raise his language above the colloquial, or goes beyond the permissi ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 6, 2020
The Nazis, when they occupied Paris, immediately abolished the brothels. They were very proper about sex, while at the same time they were making lampshade of human skin, and dest ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 29, 2020
Years of the electric ear! The heavens crackling with report: far-flung, nearby, idle, inconsequential The worst ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 22, 2020
And if you wish to assess the cost of beating the Fascists you must multiply the number of closed files in Departments of War by the exchange value of sorrow, which is infinite an ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 15, 2020
I hate compromise, except in the arena of social action, where it is a necessity. But in art, it is an alien force. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 8, 2020
I was against any kind of fixed society that would demand obedience to a position. I feel that it’s the supreme right of the individual to express himself and to act by his consci ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 1, 2020
The men who were masterless but free now have a master but no freedom. However, they have discipline and a scapegoat, and one can go far on that. “On A Note Of Triumph” broadcast ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 25, 2020
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 October 18, 2020
Radio has changed the world. It was a development by which a voice, a single voice, could be heard worldwide by millions of people. And that is a political instrument whose ramifi ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 11, 2020
Just as it is advisable to count the spoons after a guest brags of honesty, it is well to mind particulars when generalities are flying loose. “Simplifications ” from the book “Tr ...
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