{"author":"Bruce Crown","author_id":"Bruce+Crown","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"A costume party… great… a chance for the bimbos to whore themselves out with no penalty of conscience. I found myself excruciatingly curious as to what she was going as, a sailor? No. A pilot. That would be something.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["bimbos","conscience","costume","halloween","party","pilot","sailor","whores"],"id":12936,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["adulation","beauty","dante","forlorn","ink","paper","passions","string","violin","woman","wood"],"id":23420,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"The lighter something is, the easier it is to darken it.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["dark","darkness-and-light","light","noir"],"id":30358,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"His studies were always second to Beatrice. He would've said everything was second to Beatrice but the flowery metaphors and literary devices can only stretch so far and for so many characters.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["ethereal","love","metaphor"],"id":40787,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"A successful actor is praised for never giving up his dreams to become someone else for a living but to dream to be an unmasked artist is a mortal sin in a consumerist society. Artists don't consume; they create things that can’t be consumed with riches. You consume art by seeing, by listening, by feeling, never by buying.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["actor","art","buy","consume","consumerist","dream","feeling","masks","passion","passionate","passionate-living"],"id":63065,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"Naturally, the plague of humanity named confidence (or pride to some), which symptoms often render each person to fiercely believe himself to be above average, let them to believe that it was others who were affected by this case but not them. Everyone thought they had the quintessential ability to detach themselves from the cases they were working, even if the victim looked and behaved exactly like their son, daughter, niece or nephew.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["case","confidence","detachment","hubris","investigation","murder"],"id":80779,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["idealism","philosophical","power","world"],"id":83879,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"The sun tried to shine through the clouds but its light was dimmed even in us; high noon approached. I looked outside through the tinted windows at the people promenading down Madison. Couples held hands, bankers squeezed through crowds of window shoppers late for their daily thieving but all of them, even the poor, seemed content with existence, some even seemed happy. Nearly everyone’s outer shell was delicate and gracious that at the end of it all, on the border of nonexistence, each and everyone was happy to be alive. Everyone carried their heads with a radiance past the space they occupied and glided through time like flamenco dancers in a studio as big as the planet. Everyone wore masks that hid their sorrow (either that or they were sincerely happy) or wore armor that lightened the burden on their shoulders. Worst of all, I could not detect ever a flicker of thought; brains mired behind viral images and videos of people making even greater fools of themselves than they already were. And as the greatest fool of them all, I walked among them, never having learned to don the mask of happiness.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["couples","happiness","love","masks","new-york-city","sorrow"],"id":86450,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"The car housed a hysterical bumper sticker: Save the Planet, and I permitted a moment of contemplation to truly bask in this thought. Save the planet? What a joke. Save the planet from what? From ourselves? And save it for what? For ourselves? It was a kind of perpetual stupidity in a tug-of-war battle over trivial matters. Only imbeciles see things in black and white: liberal or conservative, yes or no, this or that. Those in power laugh at those people in their morally inverted shades of grey, basking in the labels they've created so the people are easier to control.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["class","forlorn","grey","ignorance","passions","planet","power","save","shades","struggle","stupidity","trivial"],"id":100040,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"It was simpler just to keep things simple.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["forlorn","passions","simplicity"],"id":150572,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}