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A weblog devoted to spurring a conversation among those who use words to varying degrees in their daily work. Hosted by John Ettorre, a Cleveland-based writer and editor. Please email me at: john.ettorre@gmail.com. "There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real." --James Salter
Sunday, September 07, 2008
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- Name: John Ettorre
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"Faith is the turning of dreams into deeds."
-Clarence Johnson
"What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it."
-Hugh Mulligan
"He is only rich who owns the day."
-Emerson
"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it."
-John Ruskin
"If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment."
-L.A. Times Synd.
Thank you John.
I especially like that last one.
"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours."
—from "The Messiah's Handbook" in Richard Bach's novel "illusions"
That line has a nice rhythm, Art. Can I assume that book gets your highest recommendation?
You can. It's a delightful little book, not very long and pretty easy to read, but it contains some pretty deep mind-bombs that most readers find they keep thinking about for some time afterwards. It's a book I've re-read several times, and given away copies of. Possibly one of Bach's best books; his other best books being those in the St-Exupery mode wherein he talks about flying and his passion for small airplanes.
"The MEssiah's Handbook" was originally a book within a book, in the novel "Illusions." I see now that it has been published separately. I would still recommend reading Illusions, as the context gives a lot of meaning to the Handbook.
Nice. And I think you've coined a nice new phrase, mind bombs, that I'll be sure to return to, remembering (I hope) to credit you. It reminded me of a similar phrase a writerly colleague used to use, which I wrote about here:
http://workingwithwords.blogspot.com/2003/10/things-that-took-my-head-off-today-my.html
"Erin O'Brien."
As always, Erin, thanks for stopping by, and it was good bumping into you the other night. But I'm guessing you may have been missing something in that last comment. Unless of course you simply wanted to remind us of your name, which we couldn't forget in any case.
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