NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 24, 2017
Have you ever known how exceedingly pleasant It is to unwrap a Christmas present? Did you ever know how much cheer it lends To be wished a Merry Christmas by your friends? Did you ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 17, 2017
Just as madmen do not think they are mad, and bores think they are fascinating, pedants are never aware of their pedantry. “Pilpul ” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 10, 2017
War …the fiercest face in the rogue’s gallery of world problems—king of the beasts—and trailing behind it, Disease, Famine, Poverty, Erosion, Overpopulation…but every one of these ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for December 3, 2017
The furies work impartially against both of us. The main difference is that when Quixote is enchanted, he’s simply out of his head, whereas when I’m enchanted, I’m just out of luc ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 26, 2017
They’ve spilled their blood for the rights of men, For people the likes of me and you And they ask that we do not fail them again In the days we are coming to. “14 August” broad ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 19, 2017
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 November 12, 2017
The word had authority. And ideas had authority. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin” December 28, 2004 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for November 5, 2017
I don’t despair yet of the American capacity to regenerate, to renew the stamina and fiber of our people, but I think that we’re living in an age of mediocrity and that the people ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 29, 2017
I was against any kind of fixed society that would demand obedience to a position. I feel that it’s the supreme right of the individual to express himself and to act by his consci ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 22, 2017
We the people—most of us, anyway—give credit to God for the special effects of creation, starting with time. But the measurement of time is our invention. It was we who came up wi ...
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