Ivan Doig Quotes

#1. Nightly awaits that sweet address
Principality of Sleep
Happy Land of Forgetfullness

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#2. Although I was the one cast out alone onto a transcontinental bus, home was running away from me

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#3. A song says something to us that we can't hear in any other way. There is a kind of magic to it. Music does not simply soothe the savage breast, it reaches to our better nature, wouldn't we all agree?

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#4. I am a writer, not a transcriber.

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#5. have a bunkhouse, but this was the most comfortably close to such a thing since the

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#6. NOW CAME OUR INTRODUCTION to Smiley, former rodeo clown, whose name outside the costume might as well have been Cranky as Hell.

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

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#8. Downtown is divided again, between the blocks of brick emporiums of the 1880s and a straggle of modern stores which look as if they have been squeezed from a tube labeled Instant Shopping Center.

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#9. THAT BEGAN a spell of time when the high point of my days was the sugar on my cereal.

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#10. For as long as there are men and women, some things in life will best be done arm in arm, and strolling in a flower garden is one.

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

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#12. People come and go in our lives; that's as old a story as there is. But some of them the heart cries out to keep forever; and that is a fresh saga everytime.

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#13. Thinking is thinking. It happens in spite of a person. ... I don't have any choice. This stuff I'm talking about is on my mind whether or not I want it to be. English Creek

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#14. 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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#15. I have read that the finest Persian carpets would have one strand deliberately left astray, to avoid the sin of pride that perfection might bring.

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#16. My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going ... whatever cargoes of words I could lay my hands on I gave safe harbor.

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#17. Kiddo,' he said tiredly, 'you have to realize, a sizable number of the population gets its start in a back seat, that's just life.

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#18. What a wealth we are granted, in the books that carry the best in us through time.

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#19. 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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#20. That whole fussy room still carried an atmosphere of having been crocheted into existence rather than carpentered.

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#21. my stints of employment had been eaten away by the acid of boredom, the drip-by-drip sameness of a job causing my mind to yawn and sneak off elsewhere.

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#22. Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.

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#23. We count by years, but we live by days.

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#24. What scrunched under our overshoes as we trudged through the stubble of the grainfield was the nasty mix of moistureless snow and windblown dirt that we called snirt.

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#25. I thought again what an achievement a book is, a magic box simultaneously holding the presence of the author and the wonders of the world.

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#26. Anyone who grows up around farm animals cannot side with a wolf in the long clash of things. But you can be against tormenting any creature.

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

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#28. In a time like that, the past meets you wherever you turn. The days do not use their own hours and minutes, they find ones you have lived through with the person you are missing.

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#29. It's funny about imagination, how it

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#30. What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over?

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#31. It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place

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#32. Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty.

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#33. Life is wide. There's room to take a new run at it.

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

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#35. Hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.

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#36. I figured if you're a man who knows his books, you can deal with the literary types who come out when the moon is full.

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#37. my eye lest I be invaded by

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#38. Life is a zigzag journey, they say, not much straight and easy on the way, but the wrinkles in the map, explorers know, smooth out like magic at the end of where we go.

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#39. Twelve years old was awfully early to meet up with what inevitability does to possibility.

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#40. Life is mostly freehand.

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