{"author":"Tracey Emin","author_id":"Tracey+Emin","total_quotes":9,"quotes":[{"text":"I really love animals. My cat is my little soul mate. He's not just a cat, he's my friend.","author":"Tracey Emin","tags":["love","soul","friend "],"id":25739,"author_id":"Tracey+Emin"},{"text":"I want to spend my life with someone and do nice things and go on adventures, read books and have nice food and celebrate things. I don't want to spend the rest of my life in the bedroom like some people who just go to bed and never get out again.","author":"Tracey Emin","tags":["life","celebrate","people "],"id":163952,"author_id":"Tracey+Emin"},{"text":"My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone.It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I'm just being realistic.","author":"Tracey Emin","tags":["anniversary","birthday","death","depression","failure","fear","new-year-s-eve","river","success","suicide","thames"],"id":172181,"author_id":"Tracey+Emin"},{"text":"Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried me through, given me faith in my own existence. But now I am approaching a point in my life where I desire more...","author":"Tracey Emin","tags":["art","depression","faith","life"],"id":179201,"author_id":"Tracey+Emin"},{"text":"What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.","author":"Tracey Emin","tags":["experience","judge","trusted "],"id":361802,"author_id":"Tracey+Emin"},{"text":"The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart.And now my soul was crying.","author":"Tracey Emin","tags":["body","crying","depressed","depression","heart","heartbroken","hurt","pain","soul"],"id":386227,"author_id":"Tracey+Emin"},{"text":"I woke up feeling alone, so lonely. The night before, I had cried myself to sleep. I lay there on the floor, listening to the tube trains passing beneath me. I thought, All those hundreds and thousands and millions of people. London, London - I hate you. I picked myself up and got ready.","author":"Tracey Emin","tags":["cities","city","crying","depressed","depression","hate","london","loneliness","public-transport","the-tube","trains","tube"],"id":389884,"author_id":"Tracey+Emin"},{"text":"A made desire to be more human, to be more normal, that's what pushes me, these days - but as someone said the other say. 'Trace, you're going to have to face facts. You and normal parted a long, long time ago.","author":"Tracey Emin","tags":["abnormal","facts","human","humanity","humanness","normal","reality"],"id":421136,"author_id":"Tracey+Emin"},{"text":"I remember, when I was about ten years old, working out that I would be thirty-six in the year 2000. It seemed so far away, so old, so unreal. And here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless beautiful woman. I never dreamed it would be like this.","author":"Tracey Emin","tags":["alcoholic","anorexic","dreams","future","loneliness","mental-health","reality"],"id":434952,"author_id":"Tracey+Emin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}