NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 15, 2017
Just as it is advisable to count the spoons after a guest brags of honesty, it is well to mind particulars when generalities are flying loose. “Simplifications ” from the b ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 8, 2017
For good or ill, there’s something to be said for the auteur. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 1, 2017
The world citizen attacks famine as he would an enemy. “Citizen of the World” broadcast July 10, 1949 on CBS ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 24, 2017
There was in many of my productions a social awareness, that we’re not living in a vacuum, that there was a need for responsible citizenship and world awareness. “The Poet Laure ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 17, 2017
The Nazis, when they occupied Paris, immediately abolished the brothels. They were very proper about sex, while at the same time they were making lampshade of human skin, and dest ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 10, 2017
And if you wish to assess the cost of beating the Fascists you must multiply the number of closed files in Departments of War by the exchange value of sorrow, which is infinite an ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 3, 2017
Take a bow, G.I., Take a bow, little guy. The superman of tomorrow lies at the feet of you common men of this afternoon. This is it, kid, this is The Day, all the way from Newbu ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 27, 2017
Years of the electric ear! The heavens crackling with report: far-flung, nearby, idle, inconsequential The worst of bad news and the best of good Seizures of opinion T ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 20, 2017
I hate compromise, except in the arena of social action, where it is a necessity. But in art, it is an alien force. From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 13, 2017
Numbers. The stuff of astronomy, commerce, and body counts: A thousand—a hundred thousand—a million—ten million—thirty million—tidy figures, simple to write, easy to say, but hard ...
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