NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 26, 2025
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 the Snobs ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 19, 2025
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 of ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 12, 2025
They’ve given their noons to their country, They’ve trusted their girls to you. They are face to face with an ally’s earth For a bunch of tomorrows. “14 August” broadcast August 1 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 5, 2025
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 wir ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 29, 2024
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 December 22, 2024
The ultimate in trivialization is to reduce the capacity and will of people to think for themselves. In that exercise mediocritization has always had its strongest support, corrob ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 15, 2024
Beaches without beachheads. Jobs without sergeants. Gunners who tilted the guns of battleships and stoked them in epic combat, will ride the level ferries of bay and river. “Fifty ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 8, 2024
Broadcasters are invariably miffed by criticism of their product and practices, and they protest as invariably that they are only giving people what they want. But the people have ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 1, 2024
I never have an outline before I begin. It’s all chaos. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 24, 2024
Man is the only animal that smiles, and Americans are the only people who have made an industry of it. “Ready, Aim, Smile” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
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