{"quotes":[{"text":"The jangle of the telephone rousted Matt out of a deep sleep. He never dreamed. Dreams were too messy.","author":"Peggy Webb","tags":["dream","dreams","messy"],"id":37385,"author_id":"Peggy+Webb"},{"text":"Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy.","author":"Jennifer Gold","tags":["biology","contemporary","fiction","human","life","messy","purpose","real","relatable","young-adult"],"id":67433,"author_id":"Jennifer+Gold"},{"text":"Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.","author":"James Surowiecki","tags":["real","messy","ambiguous "],"id":96180,"author_id":"James+Surowiecki"},{"text":"I realize life is a beautiful mess. You can make it more beautiful by accepting the way it is. If you don’t accept, you’ll mess it up.","author":"Manasa Rao","tags":["acceptance","life","life-is-beautiful","messy"],"id":109281,"author_id":"Manasa+Rao"},{"text":"She chose messy, she chose wild. She chose life on her own terms.","author":"Liz Newman","tags":["inspiration","life","messy","motivation","poetry","wild"],"id":197197,"author_id":"Liz+Newman"},{"text":"Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.","author":"William J. Harris","tags":["life","messy","neatness","truth"],"id":198605,"author_id":"William+J.+Harris"},{"text":"Real life is messy and hard and never turns out like I’ve imagined. Usually it’s better. So, I try not to dream but rather to pray. If there is one thing I know, it’s that I have no clue what I want. I’m fickle. I’m picky. And I’m scared of a lot of things. Especially commitment.","author":"Katie Kiesler","tags":["commitment","dreams","messy","prayer","real-life"],"id":209095,"author_id":"Katie+Kiesler"},{"text":"The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","best","big","burgers","inspiration","juicy","messy","stories","story","storytellers","storytelling","truth","writers","writing","writing"],"id":234935,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.","author":"John Green","tags":["altruism","characters","desire","messy"],"id":252743,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"A lot of blood,A lot of dead people,A lot of victims,A lot of useless battles,A lot of predictable battles, so far what's next?As far as now I suggest to change the road, it's too messy this road in which all are walking. Somebody will fall...","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["change","fall","messy","next","predictable","road","suggest","war"],"id":322270,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}