{"quotes":[{"text":"Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["beauty","body-vs-mind","choices","dancing","life-choices","life-decisions-choices","literature","love","night","parties","roman-payne","temptation","wanderess","woman","women"],"id":8976,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Quite collected at cocktail parties,meanwhile in my headI'm undergoing open-heart surgery.","author":"Anne Sexton","tags":["anxiety","parties"],"id":35966,"author_id":"Anne+Sexton"},{"text":"Can you imagine the reaction of a British tabloid newspaper if they found a small school in rural England hosting a party like this? A party? In a school? With children present? Where marijuana is openly smoked? And comdoms are given away at the door?Imagine the headlines! How much would the Daily Mail hate this? How much would the Daily Mail love to hate this?!","author":"Dave Gorman","tags":["america","england","humor","parties"],"id":36394,"author_id":"Dave+Gorman"},{"text":"Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["funny","funny-but-true","hell","humor","introversion","introvert","introverts","parties","party","partying","people","saints","social","socializing"],"id":56836,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I love the stillness of a room, after a party. The chairs are moved, the cushions disarranged, everything is there to show that people enjoyed themselves; and one comes back to the empty room happy that it's over, happy to relax and say, 'Now we are alone again.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["being-alone","being-home","company","friends","hosting","parties"],"id":66846,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fricks, Carnegies, Goulds, du Ponts, Belmonts, Harrimans, Huntingtons, Vanderbilts, and many more based in dynastic wealth of essentially inexhaustible proportions. John D. Rockefeller made $1 billion a year, measured in today's money, and paid no income tax. No one did, for income tax did not yet exist in America. Congress tried to introduce an income tax of 2 percent on earnings of $4,000 in 1894, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. Income tax wouldn't become a regular part of American Life until 1914. People would never be this rich again.Spending all this wealth became for many a more or less full-time occupation. A kind of desperate, vulgar edge became attached to almost everything they did. At one New York dinner party, guests found the table heaped with sand and at each place a little gold spade; upon a signal, they were invited to dig in and search for diamonds and other costly glitter buried within. At another party - possibly the most preposterous ever staged - several dozen horses with padded hooves were led into the ballroom of Sherry's, a vast and esteemed eating establishment, and tethered around the tables so that the guests, dressed as cowboys and cowgirls, could enjoy the novel and sublimely pointless pleasure of dining in a New York ballroom on horseback.","author":"Bill Bryson","tags":["gilded-age","money","new-york","parties","wealth"],"id":105571,"author_id":"Bill+Bryson"},{"text":"Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate.","author":"Jack Kerouac","tags":["loneliness","parties"],"id":115300,"author_id":"Jack+Kerouac"},{"text":"In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.","author":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","tags":["depression","parties"],"id":117328,"author_id":"F.+Scott+Fitzgerald"},{"text":"I regard the USA mass population routinely flip-flopping between the Republican and Democratic parties as a form of insanity.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["between","democratic","flip","flopping","form","insanity","mass","masses","parties","population","regard","republican","routinely","usa"],"id":149080,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.","author":"Julia Fierro","tags":["dates","parties","summer"],"id":150992,"author_id":"Julia+Fierro"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}