{"author":"Paul Murray","author_id":"Paul+Murray","total_quotes":37,"quotes":[{"text":"Their faith in him is at once touching and alarming -- their trust that they are safe simply because he's with them, as if an adult presence warded of all possible threat, emanated an unbreachable forcefield.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["adults","children","danger","safety"],"id":3820,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"I don’t see Number Four though—oh.” Number Four, wearing an unflattering chartreuse jacket, was sitting alone on the chewed-up grass, despondently licking his testicles. “Hmm, I don’t know, Bel . .","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["betting","dog-racing","dogs","gambling","track"],"id":24242,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"People don't want the truth,' he says, waving a hand at the streets around us. 'They want better-quality lies. High definition lies on fifty-inch screens.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["human-nature","lies","modernity","truth"],"id":28795,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"THE ACCURSED SHIP didn’t sink for a full three hours. By the time it did, I was feeling so traumatized that even watching Dogface die offered little consolation. The dialogue, the acting, the vast emptiness of the whole endeavor! Was that what passed for cinema these days? I felt like I had been violated; violated by a team of accountants. Laura, prostrated by grief, lay weeping on my lap. Frank stared stolidly at the credits, over which, as a coup de grâce, a cat or cats were being strangled to the effect that “My Heart Will Go On,” which at this moment in time was not a sentiment I could endorse.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["celine-dion","kate-winslet","leonardo-dicaprio","movie","movies","my-heart-will-go-on","titanic"],"id":30551,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under the speed of light, and then crashed into each other? Only here alcohol, accentuated secondary sexual characteristics and primitive 'rock and roll' beats take the place of velocity.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["attraction","science"],"id":33679,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, it's our own expectations that crush us.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["expectations"],"id":35959,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make things make sense, but the way they do that is to leave out anything that doesn’t fit. And often that is quite a lot.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["history","stories"],"id":70337,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["grace","humiliation","humor","life"],"id":81587,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"I do not think my life would make a very interesting book,' I say. 'I feel I can speak with a certain amount of authority here.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["biography","humor"],"id":86413,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"},{"text":"None of us mentioned An Evening of Long Goodbyes, whose race had been so catastrophic that, by the end, neither Frank nor I could summon the will to gloat. He had begun badly, getting his head stuck in the gate and having to be extricated by the stewards, and continued with a series of humiliating and distinctly uncanine trips and stumbles, disgracing himself beyond redemption in the third lap, when his muzzle came off and, to the boos of the crowd, he abandoned the race to leap over the hoardings and snatch a hot dog from the hand of a small boy.","author":"Paul Murray","tags":["dog-racing","dogs"],"id":107111,"author_id":"Paul+Murray"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}