{"quotes":[{"text":"I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.","author":"Pawan Mishra","tags":["children","disgust","dying","helpless","helplessness","protection"],"id":7437,"author_id":"Pawan+Mishra"},{"text":"Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--'friend' and 'real' and 'story' and 'change'--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like 'identity' and 'search' and 'cloud,' had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had 'American' become an ironic term? How had 'democracy' come to be used in an arch, mocking way?","author":"Jennifer Egan","tags":["america","democracy","disgust","language","web","wit"],"id":9125,"author_id":"Jennifer+Egan"},{"text":"Every word that is spoken and sung here (the Cabaret Voltaire) represents at least this one thing: that this humiliating age has not succeeded in winning our respect.","author":"Hugo Ball","tags":["dada","disgust","respect"],"id":20650,"author_id":"Hugo+Ball"},{"text":"If you introduce the human figure you at once arouse either disgust or desire.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["art","desire","disgust","human-form"],"id":43359,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"A lame creature, a cripple like myself, has no right to love. How should I, broken, shattered being that I am, be anything but a burden to you, when to myself I am an object of disgust, of loathing. A creature such as I, I know, has no right to love, and certainly no right to be loved. It is for such a creature to creep away into a corner and die and cease to make other people's lives a burden with her presence.","author":"Stefan Zweig","tags":["broken","burden","cease","creature","creep","cripple","die","disgust","hide","lame","loathing","love","right","shattered"],"id":61520,"author_id":"Stefan+Zweig"},{"text":"I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it.","author":"Marianne Moore","tags":["disgust","poet","poets","pretention","pretentious","pretentiousness"],"id":76286,"author_id":"Marianne+Moore"},{"text":"I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.Another life is never safely envied.","author":"Robert Wells","tags":["desire","disgust","envy","life","pillar","poem","poetry"],"id":116356,"author_id":"Robert+Wells"},{"text":"Mind is greedy. When you sense the benefits with people who previously thought rubbish about you, the mind forgoes those thoughts and inclines toward those people only to gain optimal benefits.","author":"Ashish Patel","tags":["arrogance","bias","brains","disgust","fairness","greed","mind","mind-games","perception","perspective","politics","psychology","temptation","thinking","thoughts","unfair-advantage"],"id":117783,"author_id":"Ashish+Patel"},{"text":"Revolting. If women were so careless to become pregnant at such a time, let women sort it out.","author":"Ruta Sepetys","tags":["alfred","disgust","pregnancy","revulsion","ruta-sepetys","salt-to-the-sea","war","women-s-rights"],"id":126934,"author_id":"Ruta+Sepetys"},{"text":"The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.","author":"Fuyumi Ono","tags":["disgust","fantasy","fear","silence","violence","war"],"id":163860,"author_id":"Fuyumi+Ono"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}