{"quotes":[{"text":"Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.","author":"Guillermo del Toro","tags":["experience","introspective","life","life-experience","life-experiences","marriage","musing","musings","science","statement-of-fact"],"id":335,"author_id":"Guillermo+del+Toro"},{"text":"If you had to lose everything, what would you miss most? It wouldn't be anything gross, like the big house, or the fancy car, assuming you had such things. It wouldn't be your impeccable reputation, or fame, or the regard of others. No; if you had to lose everything – I mean EVERYTHING – it would be the things you most take for granted now that you would miss. It would be different for each person, and it would probably surprise you to know what it was: a lilac tree in flower, the sound of a train in the distance, the smell of marmalade or hot buttered toast. Rain on a windowpane. A fruit thingummy.","author":"John Burnside","tags":["joy","life","musing"],"id":2897,"author_id":"John+Burnside"},{"text":"Your thoughts are transparent.","author":"Wayne Gerard Trotman","tags":["chi-ro-jin","intuition","musing","pondering","psychic","psychic-powers","sci-fi","science-fiction","scifi","talisian","telepathy","thinking","thoughts"],"id":26688,"author_id":"Wayne+Gerard+Trotman"},{"text":"Why do people, when they are wrong, twist the conversation around and place the blame on someone else?","author":"Hilary Grossman","tags":["dating","human-nature","life","musing","self-realization"],"id":58311,"author_id":"Hilary+Grossman"},{"text":"...The most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["beauty","happy","musing","weep","writing-craft","writing-process"],"id":58689,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["contemplation","fragments","great","great-man","idea","inspirational","little-things","michael-bassey-johnson","muse","musing","musings","reflection","retrospection","talent","thinking","thoughts","useless","wisdom"],"id":82480,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"An atheist waving a cross at a vampire was a truly pitiful sight.","author":"Laurell K. Hamilton","tags":["musing","religious"],"id":94598,"author_id":"Laurell+K.+Hamilton"},{"text":"A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to the path of destruction.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["calculation","calculations","complication","creativity","divided","dubiety","dubious","education","higher-life","information","inspiration","inspirational","intent","intention","knowledge","leadership","leading","litics","meditation","mind","muse","muses","musing","reformation","soul","talent","the-truth","the-way","thinking","true-leader","wit","wits","witty"],"id":100726,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"One did not need to believe in the Force to know right from wrong. Many who held no faith in the Force acted righteously, and he had known more than one sentient who had acted selfishly, even cruelly, and used belief to justify doing so.","author":"Greg Rucka","tags":["chirrut-imwe","guardians-of-the-whills","morality","musing","politics","rebellion","rebels","religions","star-wars","the-force"],"id":150563,"author_id":"Greg+Rucka"},{"text":"I do not have a problem with people killing themselves, as long as they took at least a hundred years to think about what they are about to do.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","consider","consideration","contemplate","depress","depressed","depression","dispirit","dispirited","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","murder","murders","muse","musing","musings","regret","regrets","satire","self-murder","suicidal","suicide","suicides","think-deep"],"id":161369,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}