NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 15, 2021
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 August 8, 2021
And greetings, immigrant multitudes who were bid good morrows and good fortune by the Statue—the millions who came, saw, toiled and begat, who created as descent a society as ever ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 1, 2021
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 July 25, 2021
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 July 18, 2021
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. From the ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 11, 2021
Slaughter on a grand scale is always appalling, but World War II was the most abominable blood purge of them all. “Fifty Years After 14 August” broadcast August 1995 on NPR ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 4, 2021
A question to ask at the edge of a new millennium: What other nation, before or since, has ever called out, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 27, 2021
A citizen of the world, when he becomes one, (and there are no formalities about it—it happens gradually, like growing up) lets himself in for a fairly sobering experience. He fin ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 20, 2021
Canned laughter is a form of self-praise. It has the advantage over external praise of being able to be laid on thickly and in the right places. “Can the Laughter” from the book H ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 13, 2021
But Honorable Judges, the office of pimp is performed by purveyors of distinction, since their labors gratify not merely one, but three parties; to wit, the seeker of recreation; ...
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