{"quotes":[{"text":"We do not know if she collapsed because of overwhelming joy, extreme surprise, grave disappointment, or heavy anxiety that for the next months and years she would live with a human male, because in fact she had been honest when she told her girlfriends that she had given up on men, OR NONE OF THE ABOVE.","author":"Kyoko Yoshida","tags":["anthology","asian-literature","booksactually","disappointment","feelings","gold","gold-standard","ireadbooksactually","losing-hope","men","prose","short-stories","singapore-literature","surprise","women"],"id":6493,"author_id":"Kyoko+Yoshida"},{"text":"If rewriting equals rereading, we must logically conclude that writing is reading. If this is indeed the case, how could we possibly write under a ban on reading? The only way left is mouth-to-mouth – poets and storytellers recite their pieces and before we can commit them to memory, everything vanishes into thin air.","author":"Kyoko Yoshida","tags":["ban","books","booksactually","gold-standard","ireadbooksactually","literature","logical","memory","mouth","poets","reading","reciting","rereading","singapore-literature","storytellers","writers","writing"],"id":62577,"author_id":"Kyoko+Yoshida"},{"text":"Trust, like money, needed a guarantee to back it.","author":"Seth Dickinson","tags":["blind-faith","fdic","gold-standard","money","trust"],"id":225643,"author_id":"Seth+Dickinson"},{"text":"Save the trees! Return to the gold standard!","author":"Ron Brackin","tags":["conservation","economics","gold-standard","green","trees"],"id":265384,"author_id":"Ron+Brackin"},{"text":"We have gold because we cannot trust governments.","author":"Herbert Hoover","tags":["gold","gold-standard","government","inflation"],"id":406939,"author_id":"Herbert+Hoover"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}