NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 26, 2015
The enemy is indeed tangible. Disease is an enemy. It has killed more people than armies. “Could Be” from the book “Overkill and Megalove” (1963) also the 1949 radio broadc ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 19, 2015
Our spirit of liberalism had been as ruthlessly suppressed as anywhere in the world, short of the kind of torture and murder that you find in the truly benighted countries. The sw ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 12, 2015
Mediocrity is, above all, comfortable. It makes modest demands on the powers of perception and ratiocination, and none at all on creativity. This translates into business opportun ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for April 5, 2015
The staff organist at the electric console of the average ball park ranks somewhere between a public nuisance and a public enemy. “Beisbol, Anyone?” from the book “Holes in ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 29, 2015
Charity toward the enemy in war is less common than tap-dancing on quicksand, but there are never any bounds to cruelty. All it takes to excel at it is power, opportunity and vile ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 22, 2015
The lingo is polite as varnish, Sincere as the wax-faced undertaker saying, “We are sorry about your loss.” And after the notes are exchanged, and high respects transmitted like w ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 15, 2015
Odds in battle are at best ridiculous, like rolling warped dice on a lumpy table. The ultimate risk of the gamble is of course loss of everything, with no chance to recoup—known, ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 8, 2015
I am very much bothered by lapses of taste. Taste is exercised every time that you put a word down. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for March 1, 2015
Your Honor, if we exalt priests, who are stewards of a dubious peace on earth, why should we not honor pimps, who are intermediaries of a peace in bed? Pimps are but prompters of ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for February 22, 2015
General Electric is now the owner of NBC. This kind of thing can only have a deleterious effect that will filter down to the individual artist and hurt him. Hurt us all. Fr ...
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