{"quotes":[{"text":"They never opened the door which leads to the soul.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["literary","spiritual"],"id":7927,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morningsun. Some yelled and threw sticks, but were slow and didn’t bite. Humans were mostly harmless.","author":"Cole Alpaugh","tags":["fiction","literary","novel","story","thailand"],"id":17970,"author_id":"Cole+Alpaugh"},{"text":"Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I will forgive her a large nose, a cleft lip, even crossed-eyes; and I’ll bathe in the jouissance of her intoxicating odour.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["adventure","adventuress","aeging","aging-well","aging-with-grace","all-women-are-beautiful","beautiful-scents","beauty-in-aeging","beauty-in-aging","beauty-in-women","big-nose","bravery","cleft-lip","courage","cross-eyes","dance","dancing","dreameress","exploration","explore","explorer","feeling-good","female","female-beauty","female-characters","female-empowerment","female-hero","female-liberation","females","feminine","femininity","feminism","freedom","girl","girl-power","girl","girls","growing","growth","imagination","imaginative","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspire","large-nose","life-and-living","life-change","life-philosophy","literary","living-life-to-the-fullest","loving-life","olfactory-sensors","parisian-reverie","passion","passionate","passionate-life","passionate-living","revitalize","revitalizing","roman-payne","scent-of-a-woman","scents","seize-the-day","self-acceptance","self-love","self-value","self-worth","sense-of-smell","smell-of-a-women","the-value-of-life","the-wanderess","wander","wanderess","wild-woman","wildness","woman","woman-s-character","woman-s-strength","womanhood","women","women-s-inspirational","women-s-liberation","women-s-motivational","women-s-power","women-s-scents-olfactory","women-s-strength"],"id":29806,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"The sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news — things which on their own merits would get the big headlines-being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that ‘it wouldn’t do’ to mention that particular fact. So far as the daily newspapers go, this is easy to understand. The British press is extremely centralised, and most of it is owned by wealthy men who have every motive to be dishonest on certain important topics. But the same kind of veiled censorship also operates in books and periodicals, as well as in plays, films and radio. At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say it, just as in mid-Victorian times it was ‘not done’ to mention trousers in the presence of a lady. Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["censorship","denial","england","literary","political","psychological","social"],"id":35290,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"Especially on rainy nights like this, they would congregate under the bridge, all the boys from nowhere, the boys who lived nowhere, who had nowhere else to go.","author":"Robert Dunbar","tags":["horror","literary"],"id":49565,"author_id":"Robert+Dunbar"},{"text":"I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.","author":"Richard Ford","tags":["canada","crime","literary"],"id":51421,"author_id":"Richard+Ford"},{"text":"A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["accessories","beauty","braids","bridges","cheveux","cities","city","coiffeur","fashion","fashion","fashion-women","feminine","femininity","girls","hair","hair-style","hair-styles","literary","looks","mode","models","nattes","novel","from-books","roman-payne","the-wanderess","trends","wanderess","womanhood","women"],"id":52670,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"All I want is to sleep--to dream. Life is better in dreams.","author":"Christina Westover","tags":["christina-westover","dreams","literary-fiction","literary","poisoning-sylvie","san-francisco","sleep","women-s-fiction"],"id":58638,"author_id":"Christina+Westover"},{"text":"If Audrey sensed what he was contemplating, her silence did not let on. He turned from the window and found her looking at him with a flawless poker face. It may have been attentiveness and curiosity to hear what he would say next, or perhaps she was expecting from him what women throughout the ages, often against their better judgment, had expected of men.","author":"Roy L. Pickering Jr.","tags":["african-american-fiction","amazon","contemporary","diverse-characters","fiction","kindle-scout-nominee","literary","new-york-city","novel","roy-l-pickering-jr","upmarket-commercial-fiction","women-s-issues"],"id":59459,"author_id":"Roy+L.+Pickering+Jr."},{"text":"Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human happiness. That they can never know and therefore they grudge it to men. Nothing makes them so evil and cruel as that men should presume to be happy and forget them for the sake of their earthly happiness.","author":"Pär Lagerkvist","tags":["gods","literary","spiritual"],"id":61296,"author_id":"P%C3%A4r+Lagerkvist"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":140,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}