{"quotes":[{"text":"[Patricia Highsmith] was an extremely unbalanced person, extremely hostile and misanthropic and totally incapable of any kind of relationship, not just intimate ones. I felt sorry for her, because it wasn't her fault. There was something in her early days or whatever that made her incapable. She drove everybody away and people who really wanted to be friends ended up putting the phone down on her.It seemed to me as if she had to ape feelings and behaviour, like Ripley. Of course sometimes having no sense of social behaviour can be charming, but in her case it was alarming. I remember once, when she was trying to have a dinner party with people she barely knew, she deliberately leaned towards the candle on the table and set fire to her hair. People didn't know what to do as it was a very hostile act and the smell of singeing and burning filled the room.","author":"Andrew Wilson","tags":["alarming","ape","asperger-s","aspergers","aspergers-syndrome","autism","behaviour","burning","charm","charming","dinner-party","fault","feelings","fire","hostile","incapable","intimacy","misanthropic","misanthropy","people","relationship","singeing","social-behaviour","unbalanced"],"id":13973,"author_id":"Andrew+Wilson"},{"text":"For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the life of his keeper; or from that old baboon, who, descending from the mountains, carried away in triumph his young comrade from a crowd of astonished dogs—as from a savage who delights to torture his enemies, offers up bloody sacrifices, practices infanticide without remorse, treats his wives like slaves, knows no decency, and is haunted by the grossest superstitions.","author":"Charles Darwin","tags":["ape","apes","belief","evolution","great-ape","great-apes","humanity","humans","man","preference","sacrifice","slavery","superstition","torture"],"id":28694,"author_id":"Charles+Darwin"},{"text":"These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man.","author":"Rudyard Kipling","tags":["ape","crocodile","curiosity","greed","kite"],"id":167298,"author_id":"Rudyard+Kipling"},{"text":"I am not an ape, I am a man. The world has been created by God. Man has been created by God. It is not possible for man to understand God - God understands God. Man is God and therefore understands God. I am God. I am a man. I am good and not a beast. I am an animal with reason. I have flesh, I *am* flesh, I am not descended from flesh. Flesh is created by God. I am God. I am God. I am God.","author":"Vaslav Nijinsky","tags":["ape","flesh","god","man"],"id":186452,"author_id":"Vaslav+Nijinsky"},{"text":"Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.","author":"Douglas Adams","tags":["ape","cosmology","digital","earth","galaxy","humour","perspective","primitive","unfashionable","watches"],"id":222557,"author_id":"Douglas+Adams"},{"text":"I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.","author":"Desmond Morris","tags":["angel","ape","fallen","fellow","fellow-man"],"id":399247,"author_id":"Desmond+Morris"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}