NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 11, 2015
The military mind likes nothing better than a chance to experiment, to rehearse, test and prove new weapons under optimum conditions. The guinea pig in these experiments is always ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 4, 2015
The census-takers tell us that so-and-so many billions live here and there, and give us percentages of this and that—but no count is made of moist lips and caressing hands, of gam ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 27, 2015
Between what could be and what is are barbed wire and tank traps, walls, armed borders, reconnaissance patrols, old wounds and new suspicions, hatred, fear, corruption, ignorance, ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 20, 2015
There are no inexorable laws in art. The laws are made to be broken, creatively. And when there is an unvarying obedience to laws of that kind, you invite a kind of stagnation. ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 13, 2015
The writer who labors at elegance and preens himself on arcane language, knows that he is placing a screen between himself and his reader. “Pilpul ” from the book “Triviali ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 6, 2015
Ah, well, there are no rents or levies in cardboard housing; the only taxes are on health and dignity. Certain amenities are absent, such as walls and a roof, yet the floor is alw ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 30, 2015
Avoidance of pain sounds attractive, but it easily translates into avoidance of responsibility, a running away from the very realities to which we must we must be educated, and ag ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 23, 2015
My worry is that we are on a course of decline, notwithstanding our armaments and our per capita income and the number of telephones and automobiles we have. From the book, ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 16, 2015
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 the gutters fry in summer. One o ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 9, 2015
There is to me something ungracious, not only in style but in manners, about the use of words that the writer knows very well are Greek to the general reader. “Smith and th ...
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