NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for January 2, 2022
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 26, 2021
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 December 19, 2021
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, “Years ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 12, 2021
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 December 5, 2021
Fate and fission were on our side. The wrath of the atom fell like a commandment, and the very planet quivered with implications. “Fifty Years After 14 August” broadcast August 19 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 28, 2021
For transmitters and presses are not only mechanisms but vehicles—carriers of whatever content is poured into them. They are purveyors of the Word, the ideology, the big or little ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 21, 2021
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. ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 14, 2021
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 November 7, 2021
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 October 31, 2021
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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