{"quotes":[{"text":"I don’t much care for all this talk of God washing away all my dirt. I like a bit of grit around the edges. It gives me character and does a passable job of faking depth, from a distance.","author":"Thomm Quackenbush","tags":["depth","dirty","god","sin"],"id":11817,"author_id":"Thomm+Quackenbush"},{"text":"(by the way . . . I realize I switch from present to past tense, and if you don't like it . . . Ram a nipple up your scrotum. -printer: leave this in.).","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["dirty","man","old"],"id":20105,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Being a billionaire helps when you live in a slum and have to eat scraps of food and drink dirty water.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["billionaire","dirty","eat","food","greed","live","money","philosophy","scraps","slum","water"],"id":20375,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit.","author":"Craig Groeschel","tags":["areas","dirty","fruit","get","god","hands","help","is","make","money","of","our","out","problem","provide","pull","rid","roots","sacrifices","some","spirit","spiritual","spoiling","the","those","to","tools","up","us","weed","where","willing"],"id":29082,"author_id":"Craig+Groeschel"},{"text":"It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["clean","compassion","consideration","dirty","easy","laziness","lazy","mess","political","responsibility","selfishness","slacker","slacking","work"],"id":33902,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me--the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved.","author":"Jessica Sorensen","tags":["dirty","emotional-pain","guilt","rape","raped","shame","silence","trauma"],"id":36301,"author_id":"Jessica+Sorensen"},{"text":"Negative people will always be there to stain your pure image with their dirty tongues and brushes, but you'll always remain as white as snow, no matter how high the quality of paint they use.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["against","attack","bad-people","brand","conquer","conquering","conspiracy","criticism","critics","dirty","downfall","enemies","gossip","high-quality","image","impurity","media","michael-bassey-johnson","negative-people","negativity","paint","painting","perfect","pure","purity","quality","rebel","slander","snow","stain","stains","sully","win","winning"],"id":49279,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"There is only one way to fight, and that's dirty. Clean gentlemanly fighting will get you nowhere but dead, and fast. Take every cheap shot, every low blow, absolutely kick people when they're down, and maybe you'll be the one who walks away.","author":"Jeaniene Frost","tags":["dead","dirty","fast","fight","kick","people"],"id":53205,"author_id":"Jeaniene+Frost"},{"text":"The Trust movie it has shown how one picture could be twisted and even how the cops are dirty!","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["cops","dirty","movie","picture","shown","trust"],"id":53446,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.","author":"Denis Johnson","tags":["abortion","denis","dirty","jesus","johnson","son","wedding"],"id":69636,"author_id":"Denis+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}