{"quotes":[{"text":"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'm AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'm NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: 'I'm AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'm NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!","author":"Paddy Chayefsky","tags":["anger","classic","cynical-humor"],"id":57,"author_id":"Paddy+Chayefsky"},{"text":"Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep,even so I will endure…For already have I suffered full much,and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war.Let this be added to the tale of those.","author":"Homer","tags":["adventure","classic","epic"],"id":5463,"author_id":"Homer"},{"text":"Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.","author":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","tags":["classic","romantic"],"id":8295,"author_id":"Johann+Wolfgang+von+Goethe"},{"text":"The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.","author":"George Santayana","tags":["classic","culture","george-santayana","tradition"],"id":11554,"author_id":"George+Santayana"},{"text":"Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.","author":"Elie Wiesel","tags":["history","jewish","classic "],"id":12053,"author_id":"Elie+Wiesel"},{"text":"There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["classic","fiction","marlow"],"id":26115,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"Eating organic for good health and spending your day sitting down using a wireless computer that is next to a WiFi router is a classic case of Yin \u0026 Yang.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["case","classic","computer","day","down","eating","food","frequency","good","health","next","organic","radiation","radio","rf","router","sitting","spending","using","wifi","wireless","yang","yin"],"id":31130,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life. The barrier was soft, pliable and, for a moment, thanks to the kindness of a stranger and the power of a good storytelling voice, I made the short journey--and returned.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["books","characters","classic","reality","storytelling"],"id":37197,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"I believe in the simple things--the classic beginning of once upon a time, that good conquers evil in the end, fantasy and fate. My life is that of wondrous enchantment, a place of endless possibilities and dreams, where inspiration is found in the oddest of places. I aspire to inspire, and someday I will change the world,.","author":"Andrew Kendall","tags":["aspire","beginning","belief","believe","change","classic","conquer","dream","dreams","evil","fantasy","fate","good","inspiration","inspire","life","odd","once-upon-a-time","place","places","possibility","simple","someday","the-dark-dictionary","world"],"id":42682,"author_id":"Andrew+Kendall"},{"text":"Rationality is the way to lead life. So high time,let’s stop feeding our dreams and shake hands with the reality.","author":"Parul Wadhwa","tags":["classic","classic-literature-beauty","debate","debate","debates","delhi-university","delhiite","life-in-a-metro","reality-of-life","rishabh","the-masquerade"],"id":50362,"author_id":"Parul+Wadhwa"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":115,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}