NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 21, 2014
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 September 14, 2014
The ear is the organ through which we perceive the subtlest of the arts, which is music. “The Poet Laureate of Radio: An Interview with Norman Corwin” December 28, 2004 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 7, 2014
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 August 31, 2014
We are pious about the right to dissent except where it crosses church or state, offends company management, is critical of the Pentagon, the presidency, the two-party system, con ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 24, 2014
To trivializers, God is a resource and religion is a technique, and the combo is unbeatable. “Religion” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983) ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 17, 2014
War has the voice of a million muzzles, and where it speaks, dust hangs in the air for weeks. Violence is consummate, no worm is safe; the bomb digs deeper than the mole. All crea ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 10, 2014
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 August 3, 2014
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 July 27, 2014
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 July 20, 2014
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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