{"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":"You said just now, 'Don't be so ashamed of yourself, because that's the root of your trouble'––with those words, you seem to have reached right into my innermost soul. What I mean is, when I visit people, I always feel that I'm really the lowest of the low, that everybody takes me for a buffoon, so I say to myself, why shouldn't I act the fool, I'm not afraid of what any of you might think, because every single one of you is even worse than me. That's why I'm a buffoon, I'm a buffoon born of shame, great starets, of shame. It's anxiety pure and simple that makes me so unruly.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["anxiety","buffoonery","confession","ego","melodrama","shame"],"id":412670,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"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"},{"text":"With 'gay marriage,' the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexuals finishing what faithless, selfish heterosexuals have begun.","author":"Orson Scott Card","tags":["buffoonery","deseretnews","human-rights","obscurantist"],"id":464300,"author_id":"Orson+Scott+Card"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}