{"quotes":[{"text":"The good ones put your character to the flame and burn away all the rest of the shit until you come out a better you.","author":"Erin Watt","tags":["bad-person","better-person","boy","character","fame","faults","feeling","girl","happiness","love","relationship"],"id":35282,"author_id":"Erin+Watt"},{"text":"There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["action","actions","aphorism","aphorisms","bad","bad-people","bad-person","badness","character","characters","conceal","concealment","facade","facades","good","good-people","good-person","goodness","humor","humour","illusion","illusions","impress","impression","impressions","mask","masks","personalities","personality","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire"],"id":69401,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. 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