{"author":"Leonardo Donofrio","author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio","total_quotes":6,"quotes":[{"text":"Rome and New York were impressive, but they knew they were. They had the beauty of a vain woman who had squeezed herself into her favourite dress after hours of careful self worship. There was a raw, feral beauty about this landscape that was totally unselfconscious but no less real...There was no pomp or vainty here; this was an innocent, natural beauty, the best kind, like a woman first thing in the morning, lit up by the sun streaming through a window, who doesn't quite believe it when you tell her how beautiful she is.","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["beautiful","beautiful-writing","beauty","buildings","italian","italy","new-york","new-york-city","personification","rome","tuscany","woman"],"id":3674,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"},{"text":"Village life gently swirled around them, with the perpetual ebb and flow of people, scurrying in every direction. The village was a living, organic entity, with blood flowing through its veins, and with a definite pulse and heartbeat. It had its own distinct personality and its own dark caustic humour, and was constantly processing and regurgitating information through its winding, meandering streets.","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["culture","italian","life","personification","village","village-life"],"id":85958,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"},{"text":"Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...But we're always afraid of going back...","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["born","dead","death","death-and-dying","history","past"],"id":111110,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"},{"text":"Identity was just a box people liked to put themselves in, a mast to tether to in a storm, a security blanket.","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["define-yourself","definition","identification","identity","identity-crisis","security","security-blanket","storm"],"id":117878,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"},{"text":"Why is it when we were kids we looked up at the stars... But now they seem to be looking down on us...?","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["aging","childhood","look-up","perspective","perspective-on-life","stars"],"id":119763,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"},{"text":"Identity was a liquid state, ever interchangeable, and adaptable to its surroundings... It was better to not have favourites - a snake didn't mourn when it had to shed its skin.","author":"Leonardo Donofrio","tags":["adaptability","definition","identity","identity-crisis","interchanging-worlds","self-awareness","shedding-skin","snake"],"id":354462,"author_id":"Leonardo+Donofrio"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}