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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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 13, 2014
So full of know-how and getting jobs done on time. Everything is rush, rush, rush—it’s obscene! Instant coffee! Minute steaks! —Imagine! —Even a Minute Waltz! “The Curse of ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for July 6, 2014
No, it was not Eden, but in spite of everything, it lay closer to the Garden than any land before it in all history. During and since the great floods of immigration that carried ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 29, 2014
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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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for June 22, 2014
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 June 15, 2014
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 June 8, 2014
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 June 1, 2014
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 May 25, 2014
Flowers, gentlemen, are hieroglyphs of love. We send them today on errands of remembrance. May they find th ...
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NORMAN CORWIN QUOTE OF THE WEEK for May 18, 2014
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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