{"author":"Paul Russell","author_id":"Paul+Russell","total_quotes":46,"quotes":[{"text":"As long as we do violence to other animals, we’ll keep on doing violence to ourselves.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["animals","violence"],"id":4878,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["human-beings","innocence","reality","success","whoring"],"id":7087,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["hands","heart","mind","night","work"],"id":12906,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"But men are such strange creatures, really. I think most of them would rather we weren’t around at all, so they could just spend time mooning over each other. Hero worship and all that stuff.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["creatures","hero-worship","men","mooning","strange"],"id":13161,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"That’s the way Chris lives, warning everyone who gets close of the lightning that may strike. Never touch anything, never make a mark. But Anatole can’t live that way. The world’s too lonely a place: he has to touch things, he has to put his arms around them.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["arms","lives","lonely","mark","touch"],"id":16709,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"Education teaches children to lose interest in what matters most to them.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["children","education","interest"],"id":24206,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["past","present","worry"],"id":52648,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"Our students didn’t used to come from such damaged families,” Louis mused. “It’s true what they say. This country really is coming apart at the seams.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["apart","country","damaged","families","seams","students"],"id":58835,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"There’s always people looking the other way when the miracles take place, people who want only a good night’s sleep when the stars are dancing, comets falling, the angels leaning low out of midnight with their trumpets, their cantatas of longing.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["angels","miracles","trumpets"],"id":65072,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"Do you even know what gay stands for? Well, let me tell you. G-A-Y. Got Aids yet?","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["aids","gay"],"id":75437,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":46,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}