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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 19, 2026

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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 ...

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 12, 2026

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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 ...

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 5, 2026

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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 ...

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 28, 2026

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Our Lady of the Freedoms, she might be called. Mother of Exiles, she has been called. The torch, from which sculptured flames billow, is not incendiary, not intended to set a fire ...

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 21, 2026

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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 ...

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 7, 2026

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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 ...

NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 31, 2026

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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) ...