Ivan Doig quotes
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“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”
-- Ivan DoigSource : 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.”
-- Ivan DoigSource : 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.”
-- Ivan DoigSource : 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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“Life is mostly freehand.”
-- Ivan DoigSource : Ivan Doig (2013). “The Sea Runners”, p.133, Simon and Schuster
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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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“Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.”
-- Ivan DoigSource : Ivan Doig (2009). “The Eleventh Man”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”
-- Ivan DoigSource : Ivan Doig (2016). “Heart Earth: A Memoir”, p.161, Simon and Schuster
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“I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise”
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“I always loved Sam Cooke, because he seemed very versatile. He sang gospel, soul, blues, pop music”
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Source : "Q&A: Aaron Stanford's Travelin' Man". Interview with Tim Surette, www.tv.com. May 09, 2007.
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“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”
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