{"quotes":[{"text":"You became the sum total of where you lived, where you shopped, which church you went to, how many kids you had and which taxi company you used, and you only associated with people who had the same responses on their list.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["community","identity","northern-ireland"],"id":253324,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"Literalness, however, is not the substance from which human culture is made.","author":"Begoña Aretxaga","tags":["anthropology","culture","gender","northern-ireland","politics","resistance"],"id":254935,"author_id":"Bego%C3%B1a+Aretxaga"},{"text":"If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?","author":"Alex 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peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people’s thinking.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["hatred","northern-ireland","peace","time"],"id":379705,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["life","northern-ireland","past","present","wrong"],"id":402941,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}