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  Saloon Doors Witness, Wisdom Poured, Courage Strengthened  

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Saloon Doors Witness, Wisdom Poured, Courage Strengthened
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Rainey, you've forgotten something. You've forgotten that I'm not a guy that takes any crap. Not from anybody. You've forgotten I've been in business because I stayed alive longer than some guys who didn't want me that way. You've forgotten that I've had some punks tougher than you'll ever be on the end of a gun and I pulled the trigger just to watch their expressions change.
Mickey Spillane - Vengeance is Mine

Jesus Christ! Have you ever heard of anyone who drank while he worked? You're thinking of Faulkner. He does sometimes - and I can tell right in the middle of a page when he's had his first one.
Ernest Hemingway

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner

...to the race in general, alcohol as been an anodyne, a warmer of the soul, a strengthener of muscle and spirit. It has given courage to cowards and has made very ugly people attractive. There is a story told of a Swedish tramp, sitting in a ditch on Midsummer Night. He was ragged and dirty and drunk, and he said to himself softly and in wonder, "I am rich and happy and perhaps a little beautiful.
John Steinbeck, The Log from the Sea of Cortez

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::tigger3
01/12/18 3:42 PM GMT
For me it has the look of something prehistoric, that might have been found on a dig. John, your so darn good at these, and I do enjoy each one. tigs=^..^=
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Nature in all her glory is my uplift on life and so is my love of photography. sandi ♪ ♫
::0930_23
01/12/18 5:22 PM GMT
This is your brain on booze! We used to call it "the elixir of the gods." :) I was in the service at the time.

TicK


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People are like cameras--sometimes they lose focus.
.GomekFlorida
01/12/18 8:01 PM GMT
I see two hemispheres of an alien brain.
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Long before the white man and long before the wheel, when the dark green forests were too silent to be real. Lightfoot 1967
::LynEve
01/14/18 11:25 AM GMT
My first thought was that it was a pair of lungs.
Now with your as always thought provoking quotations I am forced to have a rethink !
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My thanks to all who leave comments for my work and to those of you who like one enough to make it a favourite. To touch just one person that way makes each image worthwhile. . . . . . . . . .. . . . "The question is not what you look at, but what you see" ~ Marcel Proust
.rvdb
01/14/18 7:25 PM GMT
I win a fosselized dino brain for sure........well its really different.?? Good one.

Rob
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The reason why the sun sets in the evening is because it wants to see the sunrise in the morning. I rise in the morning because I want to see them both. RvdB
::Vickid
01/18/18 2:39 PM GMT
I see many images here, you just have to look for them. Stunning work, intricate, involved, all with a message to decipher. You are a rare one, John, your artwork is simply tremendous. Favorite.
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
::Nikoneer
01/24/18 9:47 AM GMT
It's 2039 and my harvested brain is finally released for study by the Shrivelled Tissue Institute... or is this image familiar to me because this is nearly what my brain looks like now, viewed from above?

Hmmmmm... I'll have to think on th... oh, wait... too late.

-Nik
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