{"author":"Carl Watson","author_id":"Carl+Watson","total_quotes":3,"quotes":[{"text":"I saw a bullfrog snap a tiny bird off a reed once, swallowing it just like that, grinding the singing thing to foodstuff in its slimy belly, and the witnessing of that act produced in me an insight: that this moment of terror before resignation was possibly the only ascertainable moment of truth we can ever know in life.","author":"Carl Watson","tags":["life","survival","terror","the-unknown","truth"],"id":1793,"author_id":"Carl+Watson"},{"text":"It was even said that some birds spring to life in the tension of accidental chords being struck in the ether, a confluence of arbitrary sound waves from unrelated sources: a piano, a truck, a breaking bottle---a bird.","author":"Carl Watson","tags":["birth","nature","spontaneous-generation"],"id":51469,"author_id":"Carl+Watson"},{"text":"There was one floor that was all gynecologists. They could tell by the remnants of weird optical contraptions- all the convoluted tools men use when they're searching for the source of their anxieties.","author":"Carl Watson","tags":["humor","irony"],"id":395271,"author_id":"Carl+Watson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}