{"author":"Christopher Moore","author_id":"Christopher+Moore","total_quotes":105,"quotes":[{"text":"Blessed with the Beta Male imagination, he spent much of his life squinting into the future so he might spot ways in which the world was conspiring to kill him...","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["conspiring","imagination","paranoia"],"id":1710,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["bulletproof","christopher-moore","hope","truth"],"id":3239,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"I'm beginning to wonder,' said Kent, sitting down now on an overturned wooden tub. 'Who do I serve? Why am I here?'You are here, because, in the expanding ethical ambiguity of our situation, you are steadfast in your righteousness. It is to you, our banished friend, that we all turn—a light amid the dark dealings of family and politics. You are the moral backbone on which the rest of us hang our bloody bits. Without you we are merely wiggly masses of desire writhing in our own devious bile.'Really?' asked the old knight.Aye,' said I.I'm not sure I want to keep company with you lot, then.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["ethics","fool","kent","morality"],"id":5157,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"In another Christmas story, Dale Pearson, evil developer, self-absorbed woman hater, and seemingly unredeemable curmudgeon, might be visited in the night by a series of ghosts who, by showing him bleak visions of Christmas future, past, and present, would bring about in him a change to generosity, kindness, and a general warmth toward his fellow man. But this is not that kind of Christmas story, so here, in not too many pages, someone is going to dispatch the miserable son of a bitch with a shovel. That's the spirit of Christmas yet to come in these parts. Ho, ho, ho.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["bastard","christmas","humor","murder"],"id":5179,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["humor","writer"],"id":8960,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"Sweet Pocket, you mustn’t ask about my life before I came here. What I am now, I have always been, and everything I am is here with you.”　　“Sweet Thalia,” said I. “That is a fiery flagon of dragon toss.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["being","future","humor","life","past"],"id":16635,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["puritanism","wit","witty"],"id":18299,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"Routine feeds the illusion of safety...","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["wisdom"],"id":22320,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"The Beta Male is seldom the strongest or the fastest, but because he can anticipate danger, he far outnumbers his Alpha Male competition. The world is led by Alpha Males, but the machinery of the world turns on the bearings of the Beta Male.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["humor","men"],"id":22352,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"},{"text":"There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon.","author":"Christopher Moore","tags":["fluke","humor"],"id":28177,"author_id":"Christopher+Moore"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":105,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}