NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 17, 2020
Poverty is as old as hunger, but in a world where massive government buildings, super-supermarkets, sprawling theme parks, city-sized airports and colossal stadiums rise overnight ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 10, 2020
The difference between wearing a sandwich board and carrying and artifact on which GUCCI is prominently displayed is one only of degree. Yet so strong is the snob appeal of the ch ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 3, 2020
I love questions. They are the spirit of inquiry. Philosophically, the interrogation mark is perhaps the greatest single symbol of man’s existence on this earth. We have nothing b ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 26, 2020
Just give this Man a problem of some surplus livestock on the one hand and some hungry men who cannot buy that livestock on the other and he’ll fume and fret and make up laws and ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 19, 2020
I am dead of the mistakes of old men, And I lie fermenting in the wisdom of the earth “Untitled” radio play (published version) from the book “Untitled and Other Radio Dramas” (19 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 12, 2020
All is accounted for Except the farmer’s boy, And the mill hand who lived near the canal, And the young men from the city block where gutters fry in the summer. One lies with an ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 5, 2020
Work and love both have the power to fetter or to liberate, to injure or to heal, to wither or fructify. Both can decay into baleful obligation; both can be sparkling or dull, fas ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 29, 2020
Now, you take children. By degrees, they abandon, because they’re taught to, that superbly fantasized view of reality that can make their art sometimes equal to that of the master ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 22, 2020
Stealth and wealth make good rhyming as well as other companions. From the book “So Say The Wise” (1929) under the name “Rose Ober” (Corwin’s mother) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 15, 2020
My work was liberal. My work honored the greatness of America’s founders, the greatness of America as an example of justice and wisdom in government. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: ...
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