NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 25, 2024
There was in many of my productions a social awareness, that we’re not living in a vacuum, that there was a need for responsible citizenship and world awareness. “The Poet Laure ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 18, 2024
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 February 11, 2024
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 December 31, 2023
So all in all we have been careless caretakers of our ward. We have slashed forests, dirtied skies, drained wetlands, overgrazed pastures, stunted mountains, acidified rain, degra ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 24, 2023
Have you ever known how exceedingly pleasant It is to unwrap a Christmas present? Did you ever know how much cheer it lends To be wished a Merry Christmas by your friends? Did you ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 17, 2023
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 December 10, 2023
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 December 3, 2023
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 26, 2023
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 19, 2023
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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