{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm obsessed with Kate Middleton. Obsessed. I loved the Royal Wedding. I was so cynical going into it, and pseudo-political about the whole thing, but as soon as I saw her, I was utterly charmed. I'm just completely enchanted by Kate and William.","author":"Anne Hathaway","tags":["loved","cynical","her "],"id":2947,"author_id":"Anne+Hathaway"},{"text":"George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, for her father? For she, too, had been harmed by a man who had meant to show his utmost love for her.It made George wonder why love was suppose to be such a wonderful thing. As far as he could tell, love was just another excuse for causing pain.","author":"Mette Ivie Harrison","tags":["betrayal","cynical","heartbreak","hurt","love","pain"],"id":17979,"author_id":"Mette+Ivie+Harrison"},{"text":"You can see the people who thought they could come to London, bend over and pick gold off the streets. They’re all lying on benches in Trafalgar Square with hernias and cans of Special Brew.","author":"Garry Crystal","tags":["break-ups","city","cynical","employment","humour","london","love"],"id":24020,"author_id":"Garry+Crystal"},{"text":"No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.","author":"François de La Rochefoucauld","tags":["cynical","life","truth"],"id":24910,"author_id":"Fran%C3%A7ois+de+La+Rochefoucauld"},{"text":"Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lousy horror-movine, usually...","author":"Glen Duncan","tags":["cynical","life-philosophy","truth-of-life"],"id":29977,"author_id":"Glen+Duncan"},{"text":"The day might come when I had nothing but memories, and the choice of whether to indulge my romantic side and wallow in them, or my cynical side and reflect on the reliability.","author":"Graeme Simsion","tags":["choices","cynical","love","memories","wallow"],"id":30411,"author_id":"Graeme+Simsion"},{"text":"~Posters with torn edges hanging from rotten walls~ The doctor told me something onceshe saidSTOP DRINKINGI slapped her across the face with thisNOI walked right out of that officewent right down to the holeI told the bartenderWHISKEY, MOTHERFUCKERhe poured and he pouredand I slapped my money down on that barthe man I had been driving around withhe just sort of sat there next to this hookershe probably had something rottenway down there between her legsher eyes told of no soulI emptied the bottle down my throatand ordered some chipsthe bartender told meTHEY'RE STALEand I give him a I DON'T FUCKIN' CARE,GIVE ME SOMETHIN'He slid me a ham sandwich dripping with cheap low-fat mayo and saidENJOYI went back to my roomand talked all nightso much conversationit turned the toilet bowl pale.","author":"Dave Matthes","tags":["alcoholism","ambition","bar","bar-nights","blood","booze","bottle","bravery","cynical","death"],"id":39377,"author_id":"Dave+Matthes"},{"text":"I am discovering that I can live far better without cynicism than I can without trust.","author":"Steve Goodier","tags":["cynical","cynicism","depending","trust","trusting","trustworthiness"],"id":43109,"author_id":"Steve+Goodier"},{"text":"There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["bitterness","cynical","humour","love","ugly-truths"],"id":44299,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.","author":"Patton Oswalt","tags":["cynical","comedy","kind "],"id":47820,"author_id":"Patton+Oswalt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":99,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}