{"quotes":[{"text":"...The literary manifestation of the mind-body dichotomy that dominates today's culture: the split between the 'serious' and the 'entertaining' - the belief that if a literary work is 'serious,' it must bore people to death; and if it is 'entertaining,' it must not communicate anything of importance. (Which means that 'the good' has to be painful, and that pleasure has to be mindlessly low-grade.).","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["entertaining","good","pleasure","serious"],"id":23240,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Pages entertain me more than pictures do.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["book","book-reading","books","entertain","entertaining","entertainment","hobby-of-reading","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","leisure","motivation","motivational","motivational","movie","movies","page","page-3","pages","philosophy","photo","photos","pictures","reading","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":33443,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acceptable","accomplishment","account","accounts","adeptness","admissible","agony","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appreciation","apprehension","awareness","be-acquainted-with","be-conversant-with","be-familiar-with","be-up-to-speed-on","be-versed-in","benighted","book","books","brookable","capability","capacity","cognition","cognizance","command","comprehend","comprehension","consciousness","cultivated","cultured","desolation","despair","discomfort","distress","educated","education","endurable","enlightened","entertain","entertaining","entertainment","erudite","erudition","escape","escapism","essay","essays","expertise","expertness","fiction","funny","grasp","grief","have-a-grasp-of","have-knowledge-of","have-learned","have-mastered","have-memorized","heartache","heartbreak","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","ignorance","ignorant","illiterate","inexperienced","insufferable","insupportable","intolerable","joke","jokes","know","knowledgable","knowledge","knowledgeable","learned","learning","literature","man-of-letters","manageable","mastery","men-of-letters","misery","narrative","narratives","nonfiction","novel","overpowering","pain","perception","proficiency","quotations","quotes","realization","sadness","satire","scholarly","scholarship","schooling","skill","sorrow","stories","story","sufferable","suffering","supportable","sustainable","tolerable","too-much","torment","torture","unacceptable","unbearable","understand","understanding","uneducated","unendurable","unenlightened","unhappiness","uninformed","unknowledgeable","unlearned","unlettered","unmanageable","unread","unschooled","unsophisticated","untaught","untrained","untutored","unworldly","via-dolorosa","well-educated","well-informed","well-read","wisdom","woman-of-letters","women-of-letters","wretchedness","writer","writers"],"id":114644,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["a-ripped-teddy-bear","annoying-but-fascinating","artistic","auntie-acid","beautiful","beautiful-disaster","corny","creative","different","divergent","dreamer","dreamy","entertaining","expressive","fearful","funny","inspiring","introverted","irrational","loveable","muse","my-kind","one-of-a-kind","overthinker","painfully-deep","perfect","romantic","sensitive","spirituality","stupid-but-lovable","unique","village-idiot","weird"],"id":157879,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","bore","bored","boredom","boring","desperate","desperation","entertain","entertaining","entertainment","humor","humour","lone","loneliness","lonely","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire"],"id":172734,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Publishing is definitely something you do because you enjoy educating or entertaining people.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["educating","entertaining","people","publishing"],"id":179000,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The more you read within a balanced life, the more time you have. Strange but true.","author":"Mark Donnelly","tags":["balance","entertaining","fun","knowledge","passion","peace","reading-for-life"],"id":211660,"author_id":"Mark+Donnelly"},{"text":"Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["confuse","entertain","entertaining","entertainment","fool","foolish","foolishness","fools","irritated","irritation","mind","minds","wit","witty","witty"],"id":216170,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"We’re probably leaving soon,” Rider said. “Might catch a movie.”Jayden leaned against the wall as he looked around the room. “I see how it is. You figure you don’t stand a chance with Mallory now that I’m here to show her what a real man looks like.” He winked as Rider just shook his head. “Fine, leave. But no dumb movie will be as entertainin’ as the Jayden Show. And I don’t charge admission.","author":"Jennifer L. Armentrout","tags":["chance","entertaining","jayden-luna","leaving","mallory-dodge","rider-stark"],"id":232008,"author_id":"Jennifer+L.+Armentrout"},{"text":"Spooky Twisties:All things Spooky, here beginThey lay and wait, in books within.They sometimes pass, in open space.Then leave and go, without a trace.Some appear on the spot.Some we know, others not.Sometimes we are afraid to say,“leave us now”, or beg to stay.At times they leave a sign beyond,A gentle breeze, or note from song.Be not afraid, to read story’s close.For in the dark, your spirit goes.","author":"Terri Bertha","tags":["entertaining","fun","horror","humor","middle-grade","short-stories"],"id":247559,"author_id":"Terri+Bertha"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}