Top 21 Brian Doyle Quotes

#1. He claimed he had read the book so many times that the words had fallen out of it and the pages were all blank so he had to read the book to put the words back in or the book would be forlorn and naked.

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#2. It's wrong to say that animals do not feel what we feel; indeed, they may feel far more than we do and in far different emotional shades.

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#3. Maybe, thinking about it now, we were trying to figure out how to make love in such a way as to make time not matter at all, or defeat it for awhile. Which we did for awhile.

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#4. I think we are all children even if we have old bodies and we should make a republic that runs on the wonder of children whether we are old or young children.

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#5. Well the sky always seemed like another ocean to me, you know? Like we live between two incredible oceans, and we'll never get to the bottom of either of them.

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#6. But if we do not dream, then I think perhaps we are misusing our heads. They are not on our shoulders only to be farms for hair.

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#7. And as I remember your grandmother and I were already casting eyes at each other more than we were casting for fish

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#8. Don't know what to do in a world without mud and moss, brother.

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#9. Life is a verb, life swerves and lurches no matter how cautious and careful your driving.

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#10. Better to sail alone, and let the battered vessel wander where it will. The only honest course. Assume nothing, trust no one, encumber not and be not encumbered, make your own way, steer your own ship and none other, exactly so.

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#11. There are stories in the air as thick as birds around me, he would say. I will save those stories from starving he would say. I have a great hunger for stories, he would say.

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#12. Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage.

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#13. Maybe we guzzle forty stories with every breath we draw and they soak into us and flavor and thicken and spice the wild stew we are.

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#14. We sit on park benches and beaches and couches and hilltops, listening and dreaming seemingly to no particular purpose. But isn't it often the case that when we cease to move and think, we see and hear and understand a great deal?

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#15. All stories are, in some form, prayers.

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#16. Somehow she lost her compass. Her engine failed. Her gyroscope broke. She's ... lost. She says the road she was on isn't there any more and she doesn't know where to walk now.

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#17. I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm.

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#18. Some women have a pulsing energy almost too sharp and salty to endure and when they are in pain their pain is ferocious and shatters all over the place.

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#19. People make too much of facts. Also people make too much of gut feelings. Gut feelings probably mean food poisoning.

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#20. Awkward passion is so often so very much more admirable than mere achievement.

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#21. Love is the story and the prayer that matters the most.

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