NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 13, 2013
As has been shown in enough instances to indicate a pattern, a tough answer turneth away rats. Letter to Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna, October 5, 1951, from the book “Norma ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for October 6, 2013
Funny, isn’t it—the blokes who do all the squawking and yammering are never the ones who do any of the fighting. “This is War!” episode “To the Young” broadcast May 2, 1942 ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 29, 2013
The nations have heard of the fission of the atom and have seen the photographs: skies aboil with interlocking fury, mushrooms of uranium smoke ascending to where angels patrol un ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 22, 2013
The imagination needs regular exercise in this prosaic world of stock market reports, body counts, traffic bulletins, tax laws, yellow pages and questionnaires. If the arts don’t ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 15, 2013
The difference between wearing a sandwich board and carrying and artifact on which GUCCI is prominently displayed is one only of degree. Yet so strong is the snob appeal of the ch ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 8, 2013
Just give this Man a problem of some surplus livestock on the one hand and some hungry men who cannot buy that livestock on the other and he’ll fume and fret and make up laws and ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for September 1, 2013
Labor has had practically nothing to do with the decline of America’s economic position. What has had to do with it is a crapshoot called the stock market. From the book “Years ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 25, 2013
I am dead of the mistakes of old men, And I lie fermenting in the wisdom of the earth “Untitled” radio play (published version) from the book “Untitled and Other Radio Dram ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 18, 2013
All is accounted for Except the farmer’s boy, And the mill hand who lived near the canal, And the young men from the city block where gutters fry in the summer. One lies with an ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for August 11, 2013
Work and love both have the power to fetter or to liberate, to injure or to heal, to wither or fructify. Both can decay into baleful obligation; both can be sparkling or dull, fas ...
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