Ivan Doig Quotes

• Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

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  Childhood, Soul, Stories

  Ivan Doig (2007). “The Whistling Season”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

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  Stars, Space, Done

  Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

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  World, Voyages, Lasts

  Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• It came to me more as a whisper of suggestion than the fundamental adage that it is - if this is not biblical, I shall always believe it should be - that all of us need someone who loves us enough to forgive us despite the history.

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  Believe, Biblical, Forgiving

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• The nature of love is that it catches you off-guard, subjects you to rules you have never faced, some of them contradictory.

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  Love Is, Contradictory, Subjects

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• Life is mostly freehand.

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  Life Is

  Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

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  Soldier, Written Word, Courses

  Ivan Doig (2009). “The Eleventh Man”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am a writer, not a transcriber.

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  Ivan Doig (2016). “Heart Earth: A Memoir”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

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