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Ivan Doig quotes: 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.

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.

Ivan Doig quotes: We count by years, but we live by days.

We count by years, but we live by days.

Ivan Doig quotes: Hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: THAT BEGAN a spell of time when the high point of my days was the sugar on my cereal.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: I am a writer, not a transcriber.

I am a writer, not a transcriber.

Ivan Doig quotes: What a wealth we are granted, in the books that carry the best in us through time.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: 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.

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.

Ivan Doig quotes: Twelve years old was awfully early to meet up with what inevitability does to possibility.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: Nightly awaits that sweet addressPrincipality of SleepHappy Land of Forgetfullness

Nightly awaits that sweet address
Principality of Sleep
Happy Land of Forgetfullness

Ivan Doig quotes: Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: 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.

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.

Ivan Doig quotes: Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty.

Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty.

Ivan Doig quotes: It takes some real hard running to stay in the same place

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

Ivan Doig quotes: Life is mostly freehand.

Life is mostly freehand.

Ivan Doig quotes: Although I was the one cast out alone onto a transcontinental bus, home was running away from me

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

Ivan Doig quotes: 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.

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.

Ivan Doig quotes: Life is wide. There's room to take a new run at it.

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

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

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

Ivan Doig quotes: have a bunkhouse, but this was the most comfortably close to such a thing since the

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

Ivan Doig quotes: There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: my eye lest I be invaded by

my eye lest I be invaded by

Ivan Doig quotes: NOW CAME OUR INTRODUCTION to Smiley, former rodeo clown, whose name outside the costume might as well have been Cranky as Hell.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: 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.

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.

Ivan Doig quotes: That whole fussy room still carried an atmosphere of having been crocheted into existence rather than carpentered.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.

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

Ivan Doig quotes: 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.

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.

Ivan Doig quotes: It's funny about imagination, how it

It's funny about imagination, how it