{"author":"Sol Luckman","author_id":"Sol+Luckman","total_quotes":41,"quotes":[{"text":"Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["art","beggar","begging","homeless","homelessness","hunger","mastery","poverty"],"id":1849,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you’ve got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["beggar","begging","conformity","generosity","good-will","human-nature","making-money","money","philanthropy","poverty"],"id":2924,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting at a point which is no-time, a theoretical crossroads fictitiously 'present,' an unstable ice floe forever drifting between was and will be.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["change","departure","fate","flux","future","imagination","leaving","life","movement","parting","past","present","time","transformation","travel"],"id":13747,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to be a metaphor, which suggests a disconnect between truth and what's commonly referred to as reality.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["metaphor","reality","truth"],"id":18727,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a regular rite of passage summer that saw us traverse the hazardous divide between the illusions of boyhood and the far more pernicious deceptions of maturity, et cetera.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["adolescence","adulthood","boy","boyhood","coming-of-age","crossroads","deception","growing-up","illusion","lies","maturation","rite-of-passage","summer","teen","teenager"],"id":22418,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"Recalling his first dreams of flight when he was a small child, Max acknowledged that his entire existence had been building up to this tipping point where he could finally choose to release his self-imposedlimitations.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["awareness","childhood","coming-of-age","consciousness","dream","dream-of-flying","empowerment","flight","flying","growing-up","growth","human-potential","limitation","personal-development","spirituality","transcendence","transformation"],"id":30834,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["astral-projection","dreaming","dreams","flight","flying","levitation","lucid-dream","roller-coasters","sleep"],"id":32012,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"Down below people were clipping by going nowhere fast. You could feel the long despairing history of the place. You could actually hear it, a low hum like the buzz of a sick bee that resonated with the fragments of a million broken dreams.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["broken-dreams","city","depressing","despair","desperation","disillusionment","dreams","others","people","urbanity"],"id":56874,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"The evidence never seemed to matter to those in power, who had already made up their minds and did what people typically do when their worldview is threatened by new data: they attacked the messenger.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["ity","blindness","dogma","ego","evidence","fringe-science","paranormal","power","science","scientific-materialism","supernatural","unexplained"],"id":62928,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"Spanish—how shall I say this?—is likePortuguese spoken with a speech impediment.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["brazil","brazilian","comedy","foreign-language","funny","humor","language","porguguese","spanish","speech","speech-impediment","wit","witty"],"id":88637,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}