{"quotes":[{"text":"Most board meetings amount to little more than intellectual masturbation. They are ideas that cause thrills, chills, and satisfaction, but there is no impregnation. Nothing is ever born of them. It’s intellectual masturbation.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["board-meetings","business","masturbation","success"],"id":15838,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"A writer should be able to open a window or two for others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just self–indulgence and intellectual masturbation.","author":"Barista Uno","tags":["intellectual","light","masturbation","self-indulgence","window","writer","writing"],"id":18446,"author_id":"Barista+Uno"},{"text":"My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.","author":"Pramoedya Ananta Toer","tags":["actions","art","artist","dedication","expression","literature","masturbation","words","writer","writing"],"id":39300,"author_id":"Pramoedya+Ananta+Toer"},{"text":"The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["fun","funny","joke","laugh","mark-twain","masturbation","smoke"],"id":64288,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard. I liked contorting my body until I could feel the ache inside my bones, until I could feel the pain in my teeth. I liked to wear lipstick and nothing else and found myself fascinated with the shape of my lips and the different colors I could make them. I ate too little. Slept too much. Masturbated far too often and at far too young an age. I enjoyed the feeling of being naked alone behind closed doors, exploring my deepest secrets within my imagination, as I put my hand over the rapid pace of my heart to feel how nervous it made me. I blushed at the faintest mention of my name and almost perished when complimented. I loved to find the answers behind someone’s eyes. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of when someone REALLY looks at you. And I read. Every chance I got.","author":"R.B. O'Brien","tags":["growing-up","lipstick","masturbation","reading"],"id":114388,"author_id":"R.B.+O%27Brien"},{"text":"To masturbate is to imagine: physically.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["imagination","masturbation"],"id":114747,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["biology","brainy","health","healthy-lifestyle","masturbating","masturbation","meditation","neuropsychology","neuroscience","prayer","praying","science-and-religion","science","sin","wellness"],"id":126880,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"That's all anyone has, and it's always brief, although, of course, some people believe they have a past where they can accumulate things and a future where they will accumulate still more. By the way, speaking of the present moment, do you masturbate a lot?","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["masturbation","now","present"],"id":134222,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.","author":"Will Self","tags":["christmas-parties","corporation","embarrassment","embarrassmentsion","masturbation","walks","wine","writers","writing"],"id":137507,"author_id":"Will+Self"},{"text":"A writer should be able to open a window or two and prompt others to see the world and themselves in a new light. Anything less is just self–indulgence and intellectual masturbation.","author":"Barista Uno","tags":["intellectual","light","masturbation","window","writer","writing"],"id":148450,"author_id":"Barista+Uno"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}