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Work Report - This blog originally focused on work, but it's now focusing on the collection of quotes I've accumulated.

Mike Crowl blogs in two places on Orble, and more than two on Blogger. His wife thinks he writes too much.

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Work Report - March 2011

Janet Frame quotes

March 21st 2011 00:14

Janet Frame was a

New Zealand author whose books have only occasionally struck a chord with me. Living in the Maniototo, for instance, turned out to have some wildly funny writing in it - humour isn't something I'd have associated with Frame - and her three-volume Autobiography was more than just a picture of a person's life; it encompassed views of cities (including my own) and of writing, and of the joys and difficulties of being alive.

The following five quotes are from her autobiography, which was originally issued in three separate parts (To the Is-land, An Angel at my Table and The Envoy from Mirror City), but, by the time I came to read it, was under one cover

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C S Lewis and pride

March 12th 2011 19:26

In his book, What Good is God, Philip Yancey quotes C S Lewis on the subject of being proud about the work you produce....

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Pride of place

March 12th 2011 00:56

In the daily lists of which of my blog posts have been read on this particular blog, the top dog has been, for quite some time, the one I wrote about the Titanic Museum at Branson.

This has always struck me as a bit curious, but who am I to carp about which of my posts get read

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Describing character

March 7th 2011 09:04

Dick Francis is best known as a writer of thrillers about jockeys and horses

and racing - and you might expect him not to be much of a stylist. In fact, amongst all the suspense and tension, he can neatly describe character in a few words with the best of them.

Here's one example:
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A poem and quotes about fathers

March 4th 2011 08:40

This poem is fairly traditional in style, but it appealed to me for its sense of grace.

Forgiving: a poem for my husband - by Jean S Platt (printed in Marriage and Family Living, June 1988

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Writing quotes

March 3rd 2011 07:34

Two writers....on writing

Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope - chapter 6
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Quoting Chesterton

March 2nd 2011 05:26

When people talk....as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts [the Mediterranean]. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded. An Arabian gentleman found riding on the road to Paris or hammering on the gates of Vienna can hardly complain that we have sought him out in his simple tent in the desert. The conqueror of Sicily and Spain cannot reasonably express surprise at being an object of morbid curiosity to the people of Italy and France.

In the city of Cairo the stranger feels many of the Moslem merits, but he certainly feels the militaristic character of the Moslem glories. The crown of the city is the citadel, built by the great Saladin out of the spoils of ancient Egyptian architecture; and that fact is in its turn very symbolical. The man was a great conqueror, but he certainly behaved like an invader; he spoiled the Egyptians. He broke the old temples and tombs and built his own out of fragments. Nor is this the only respect in which the citadel of Cairo is set high like a sing in heaven. The sign is also significant because form this superb height the traveller first beholds the desert, out of which the great conquest came

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