{"author":"Andrew Miller","author_id":"Andrew+Miller","total_quotes":13,"quotes":[{"text":"Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.","author":"Andrew Miller","tags":["art"],"id":93763,"author_id":"Andrew+Miller"},{"text":"The poverty of the villages is almost picturesque from the windows of a coach that is not stopping.","author":"Andrew Miller","tags":["old-times","poverty","scenery"],"id":111958,"author_id":"Andrew+Miller"},{"text":"If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.","author":"Andrew Miller","tags":["cats"],"id":129859,"author_id":"Andrew+Miller"},{"text":"We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.","author":"Andrew Miller","tags":["human","thumbs","wild"],"id":175149,"author_id":"Andrew+Miller"},{"text":"Control is an advertising concept.","author":"Andrew Miller","tags":["advertising","control"],"id":219742,"author_id":"Andrew+Miller"},{"text":"The writers themselves … they were pitifully out of context. So self-assured, so assuming, so completely wrong. Unable – any of them – to imagine what might be coming.","author":"Andrew Miller","tags":["writers"],"id":236943,"author_id":"Andrew+Miller"},{"text":"Artists could never, would never, harm anybody. They’re too busy painting. Same with ad drunks. They might be a bit useless at functional tasks, they may break things (small objects, precious objects, door handles, car accessories, and such), but they’re too pissed to get seriously involved in anything.","author":"Andrew Miller","tags":["artists"],"id":267054,"author_id":"Andrew+Miller"},{"text":"The visit, like all visits home for a long time now, has been an obscure failure. When is it we cease to be able to go back, truly go back? What secret door is it that closes?","author":"Andrew Miller","tags":["going-back","home"],"id":274879,"author_id":"Andrew+Miller"},{"text":"We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.","author":"Andrew Miller","tags":["diversity"],"id":276225,"author_id":"Andrew+Miller"},{"text":"I regret, most of all, my shrivelled heart. So focused on the numbers. On the maths of my personal equation. Can a man change his heart? Are there ways to improve the spirit of who you are? Of why you choose?","author":"Andrew Miller","tags":["heart"],"id":277695,"author_id":"Andrew+Miller"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}