{"author":"Lytton Strachey","author_id":"Lytton+Strachey","total_quotes":10,"quotes":[{"text":"A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["writers","writing"],"id":17519,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"},{"text":"If this is dying  I don't think much of it.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["death","dying"],"id":78380,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"},{"text":"There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["bastille","censorship","enlightenment","humor","philosophes"],"id":78630,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"},{"text":"It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["hyperbole","poetry"],"id":151041,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"},{"text":"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["history","know","too much "],"id":213760,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"},{"text":"Discretion is not the better part of biography.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["books","reading"],"id":299893,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"},{"text":"For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian──ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection that unattainable by the highest art.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["historian","ignorance"],"id":321979,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"},{"text":"It was not by gentle sweetness and self-abnegation that order was brought out of chaos; it was by strict method, by stern discipline, by rigid attention to detail, by ceaseless labor, by the fixed determination of an indomitable will.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["chaos","detail","discipline","order","will"],"id":395442,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"},{"text":"Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["happiness"],"id":434433,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"},{"text":"The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.","author":"Lytton Strachey","tags":["peace","action","place "],"id":472391,"author_id":"Lytton+Strachey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}