“Men and women are hard ore, we do not go to slag in a mere few seasons of forge.”
Source: This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
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Famous Ivan Doig Quotes
“The cave of the mouth is where men's spirits shelter.”
Source: The Sea Runners
Source: English Creek
“... hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.”
Source: English Creek
“But hindsight is always through bifocals: it peers specifically instead of seeing whole.”
Source: English Creek
“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”
Source: Heart Earth: A Memoir
“The spaces between stars are where the work of the universe is done.”
Source: The Sea Runners
“Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul.”
Source: The Whistling Season
Source: The Sea Runners
“There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.”
Source: The Sea Runners
“Every soldier in the course of time exists only in the breath of written word.”
Source: The Eleventh Man