NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 6, 2024
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 a Stai ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 29, 2024
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 September 22, 2024
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 September 15, 2024
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 September 8, 2024
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 September 1, 2024
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 August 25, 2024
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 August 18, 2024
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 August 11, 2024
They’re dead as clay for the rights of men, For people the likes of you, And they ask that we do not fail them again Tomorrow, tomorrow. “14 August” as published in the book “Un ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 4, 2024
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 ...
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