{"quotes":[{"text":"I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert everything. I am like the originals buffoons. I love the rules because I can break them.","author":"Nuno Roque","tags":["art","artistic-expression","artistry","artists","artists-life","artists","audacity","breaking-rules","breaking-the-rules","buffon","buffoon","buffoonery","buffoons","classical-education","confidence","confidence-and-attitude","confidence","confident","rules","subversion","subversive"],"id":76455,"author_id":"Nuno+Roque"},{"text":"I always feel when I meet people that I am lower than all, and that they all take me for a buffoon; so I say let me play the buffoon, for you are, every one of you, stupider and lower than I.' He longed to revenge himself on every one for his own unseemliness. He suddenly recalled how he had once in the past been asked, 'Why do you hate so and so, so much?' And he had answered them, with his shameless impudence, 'I'll tell you. He has done me no harm. But I played him a dirty trick, and ever since I have hated him.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["buffoon","ego","hatred","intelligence"],"id":77828,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"Nobility is a lie. A pretence that high standing comes from anything more than money or martial prowess. Any dolt can play the noble, and as you'll discover in time, daughter, it's mostly dolts who do.","author":"Anthony Ryan","tags":["advice","buffoon","dad","daughter","discover","dolt","father","find","honor","house","idiot","lackwit","landed","lie","majority","martial","money","nobility","noble","pretence","pretend","princess","prowess","quality","realize","sage","see","soldier","standing","station","strength","strong","time","title","truth","war","warfare","wisdom","wise"],"id":380019,"author_id":"Anthony+Ryan"},{"text":"I'm a Joker. Dangerous and silly at the same time.","author":"Nuno Roque","tags":["artistry","artists","arts","buffoon","buffoonery","buffoons","dangerous","dangerous-minds","humor","joker","jokerman","personality","self-description","self-descriptive","silly"],"id":461928,"author_id":"Nuno+Roque"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}