{"quotes":[{"text":"Little beat big When Little smart. First with the head, then with the heart.","author":"The power of one","tags":["beat","heart","little"],"id":10507,"author_id":"The+power+of+one"},{"text":"Did you do this?”“There are other ways to beat someone than with fists.” Radu poked her in the side with a finger.She surprised him by laughing. He stood up straighter, a proud grin at having surprised and delighted Lada bursting across his face. She never laughed unless she was laughing at him. He had done something right!Then the lashings began.Radu’s smile wilted and died. He looked away. He was safe now. And Lada was proud of him, which had never happened before. He focused on that to ignore the sick feelings twisting his stomach as Aron and Andrei cried out in pain. He wanted his nurse—wanted her to hold and comfort him—and this, too, made him feel ashamed.Lada watched the whip with a calculating look. “Still,” she said. “Fists are faster.","author":"Kiersten White","tags":["beat","fists","lada-dragwlya","laugh","proud","punish","radu"],"id":13699,"author_id":"Kiersten+White"},{"text":"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy. ","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["beat","writing"],"id":13903,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.","author":"N'Zuri Za Austin","tags":["beat","heart-beat","heart","poetry","poetry","rhythm","rhythm-and-rhyme-and-rhyme","words","words-to-ponder"],"id":25785,"author_id":"N%27Zuri+Za+Austin"},{"text":"…of constipation of the brain \u0026 diarrhea of the mouth.","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["beat","beat-generation","culture","speech","thoughts"],"id":29544,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.","author":"Lenore Kandel","tags":["beat","experience","language","love","poet","poetry","vision"],"id":41847,"author_id":"Lenore+Kandel"},{"text":"I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["atop-an-underwood","beat","death-and-dying","early-stories-and-other-writings","fear-of-death","fleeting-life","jack-kerouac","prose","youth-is-temporary"],"id":44062,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"The problem with the 11:11 Phenomenon is getting anybody interested in it that hasn't experienced it themselves. Other phenomena, such as U.F.Os or crop circles, are able to be seen. We can debate them. But seeing and being guided by 11:11 is hard to convey to those uninitiated in its ways.","author":"Harry Whitewolf","tags":["11","11-11","11-11-phenomenon","1111","1111-phenomenon","alcohol","angels","argentina","beat","beatnik","beats","crop-circle","eleven-eleven","phenomena","phenomenon","synchronicities","synchronicity","time-prompt","travel","u-f-o"],"id":44626,"author_id":"Harry+Whitewolf"},{"text":"Shergahn and friend lay like poleaxed steers, and the Daranfelian's greasy hair was thick with potatoes, carrots, gravy, and chunks of beef. His companion had less stew in his hair, but an equally large lump was rising fast, and Brandark flipped his improvised club into the air, caught it in proper dipping position, and filled it once more from the pot without even glancing at them. He raised the ladle to his nose, inhaled deeply, and glanced at the cook with an impudent twitch of his ears.'Smells delicious,' he said while the laughter started up all around the fire. 'I imagine a bellyful of this should help a hungry man sleep. Why, just look what a single ladle of it did for Shergahn!","author":"David Weber","tags":["beat","bully","defeat","delicious","food","funny","good","humor","humorous","laughter","lump","shame","sleep","steer","stew","triumph","yummy"],"id":45570,"author_id":"David+Weber"},{"text":"He said he loves her more because she makes him smile. Fine! I'll give him the Glasgow smile. Beat that, bitch!","author":"Natalya Vorobyova","tags":["beat","bitch","glasgow","glasgow-smile","humor","love","love-and-sayings","smile"],"id":47397,"author_id":"Natalya+Vorobyova"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}