{"quotes":[{"text":"The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted them from their original meaning, thus revealing their real significance. Henceforth, every form of writing will consist of an operation of decoding, of contamination, and of sense perversion. All this because all language is essentially mystification, and everything is fiction.","author":"Brion Gysin","tags":["code","contamination","cut-ups","fiction","language","word"],"id":4359,"author_id":"Brion+Gysin"},{"text":"The creek that was once a fishery for Atlantic salmon, a swimming hole for kids, and a focal point of community life now runs as brown as chocolate milk. Allied Chemical and its successors deny any role in the formation of the mudboils. They claim it was an act of God. What kind of God would that be?","author":"Robin Wall Kimmerer","tags":["capitalism","consumerism","contamination","theft"],"id":22072,"author_id":"Robin+Wall+Kimmerer"},{"text":"Silence might be a shout for the truth. It might be the speech that someday, in its truest, most uncontaminated, unadulterated state, all will be revealed.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["absolute","bias","censorship","certainty","confidence","contamination","corruption","deceit","faith","falsehood","honesty","hope","humility","insecurity","introvert","language","lies","manifestation","natural","not-knowing","prayer","pure","quiet","reveal","security","shouting","shy","silence","speech","truth","unadulterated","uncertainty","wisdom"],"id":119137,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["apologetics","apology","bible","christianity","contamination","discovery","error","holy-book","learning","lie","lies","mental-discoveries","mistakes","perfection","prophet","prophetic","scripture","scriptures","truth"],"id":253907,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christian","christianity","contaminate","contamination","ego","egocentric","god","greed","greedy","pray","prayers","praying","seduce","seduction","self","self-centered","selfish","taint","tainted","tempt","temptation","tempted"],"id":338086,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress.","author":"Robin Wall Kimmerer","tags":["capitalism","consumerism","contamination","damage","theft"],"id":348379,"author_id":"Robin+Wall+Kimmerer"},{"text":"But I need to remember that the grief is the settlers’ as well. They too will never walk in a tallgrass prairie where sunflowers dance with goldfinches. Their children have also lost the chance to sing at the Maple Dance. They can’t drink the water either.","author":"Robin Wall Kimmerer","tags":["capitalism","consumerism","contamination","theft"],"id":360708,"author_id":"Robin+Wall+Kimmerer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}