Tumblr (3.0; @doughcountryforoldmen)http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/535d2efaf643bad66f885f3337aff5c9/tumblr_mhphnfzzT51rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’”</span></p> <p><span>-Lewis Carroll</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/42282708598http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/42282708598Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:23:39 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/37e4666a76e67d61b15983fa8bd94d1a/tumblr_mhlu149GqX1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!</span><br/><span>Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?</span><br/><span>Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!”</span></p> <p><span>-William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/42113706787http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/42113706787Sat, 02 Feb 2013 13:00:00 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ad6b846baa515ade6a7f00cbf7bb9ce7/tumblr_mge5moVUQA1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.” </span></p> <p><span>-Joe Hill, <em>Horns</em></span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/40149904757http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/40149904757Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:56:48 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ded08b977207dddc016afbefd93ae3d0/tumblr_mg8cqgcVmA1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.” </span></p> <p><span>-Neil Gaiman</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/39884261439http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/39884261439Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:44:40 -0500<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7c5179e437f2533df658b62ecf0c8e0e/tumblr_mesn59yJAu1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Isn’t Christmas a moral and aesthetic nightmare?</span></p> <p><span>-Christopher Hitchens</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/37608024019http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/37608024019Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:34:21 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_men3zbHqTF1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”</span></p> <p><span>-Charles Dickens</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/37377756908http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/37377756908Thu, 06 Dec 2012 21:52:23 -0500<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mc5aokFN5w1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins”</p> <p>-Walt Whitman</p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/33894464350http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/33894464350Fri, 19 Oct 2012 10:53:00 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbe90tg1qM1rdz2boo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.” </span></p> <p><span>—Mark Twain</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/32905732084http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/32905732084Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:22:05 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maob6sPH6R1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.”</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>-Virginia Woolf</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/31952666916http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/31952666916Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:11:16 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_maf571sAeV1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.”</span></p> <p><span>-Donna Tartt, <em>The Secret History</em></span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/31626006126http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/31626006126Sat, 15 Sep 2012 21:23:25 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mabgx8rrIn1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much.” </span></p> <p><span>-Barbara Kingsolver</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/31498220791http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/31498220791Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:46:20 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma3ia1NmOU1rdz2boo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.” </span></p> <p><span>-William Shakespeare</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/31213470245http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/31213470245Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:34:49 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9xt6qAUnc1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”</span></p> <p><span>-F. Scott Fitzgerald </span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30999923999http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30999923999Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:44:50 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9p5yiu6IT1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“There are moments when even to the sober eye of reason, the world of our sad humanity may assume the semblance of Hell. ”</span><span> </span></p> <p><span>-Edgar Allan Poe</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30690475793http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30690475793Sat, 01 Sep 2012 20:42:18 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9l8c1MvW31rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing.”</span></p> <p><span>—Ayn Rand</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30542483256http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30542483256Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:43:13 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9dkn9Sbre1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside — you were a fraud.”</span></p> <p><span>-David Foster Wallace</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30255411136http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30255411136Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:28:21 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9br6feh1p1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.” </span></p> <p><span>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30185465935http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30185465935Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:54:14 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m99iokXVcj1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields.”<br/> -N. Scott Momaday</p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30101539263http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/30101539263Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:46:41 -0400<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m92g9pRZ2v1rdz2boo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.” <br/> ― Albert Camus</p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/29839147602http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/29839147602Mon, 20 Aug 2012 14:20:13 -0400<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8uscnDcwH1rdz2boo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><span>“My God, a moment of bliss. Why isn’t that enough for a whole lifetime?”</span></p> <p><span>-Fyodor Dostoyevsky</span></p>http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/29552932237http://doughcountryforoldmen.tumblr.com/post/29552932237Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:00:00 -0400