{"quotes":[{"text":"Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["apes","chandler","humor","ooze","philosophy","raymond-chandler","television"],"id":199284,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["alchohol","chandler","raymond","scotch","water"],"id":208401,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.","author":"Raymond Chandler","tags":["chandler","crime","marlowe","noir"],"id":259403,"author_id":"Raymond+Chandler"},{"text":"Take note, Anderson. Size and martial ability do not need to come with a correlating decrease in intelligence.","author":"Kelley Armstrong","tags":["anderson","brawn-over-brains","chandler","gabriel","intelligence","stereotype"],"id":303436,"author_id":"Kelley+Armstrong"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}