{"author":"James Joyce","author_id":"James+Joyce","total_quotes":123,"quotes":[{"text":"Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["passion","world","better "],"id":553,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["diet","food","improvement","inspirational","truth"],"id":838,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["father","mother","child "],"id":6335,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["faith","fate","religion-and-philoshophy"],"id":11997,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["ireland","irish","lyrical","sea"],"id":20455,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["araby","irish_short_stories","love"],"id":25726,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"Never back a woman you defend, never get quit of a friend on whom you depend, never make face to a foe till he’s rife and never get stuck to another man’s pfife.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["advice","betrayal","courtship","friendship"],"id":28976,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["men","post-office","respect","women"],"id":35197,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["art","life","unfettered"],"id":35911,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["heart","homesickness","sick"],"id":37903,"author_id":"James+Joyce"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":123,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}