{"quotes":[{"text":"The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ferried the cream of society across the void in opulence and style. Only the wealthiest could afford an apartment on this ship for a trip of any duration, even a short one around the proverbial block. Even the crew was obliged to pay rent.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["an","and","any","anywhere","apartment","block","duration","in","obliged","of","one","proverbial","rent","society","space","style","the","was"],"id":38154,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"We’re all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["bills","drummers","employment","genius","rent","singers","talent"],"id":65729,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Worry acts like a squatter, sneaks in and tries to stay without paying rent!' EL.","author":"Evlinda Lepins","tags":["rent","squatter","worry"],"id":79505,"author_id":"Evlinda+Lepins"},{"text":"12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["bills","dating","finance","marriage","money","relationships","rent"],"id":90758,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The office’ is a cemetery of dreams.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["bill","cemetery","dreamer","dreams","employee","employer","employment","give-up","office","plan-b","rent"],"id":104569,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["altruism","breakup","breakups","charity","compassion","debt","divorce","empathy","fail","failure","feed","food","gene","genes","genie","ghandi","heart","hearts","humanity","humor","humour","job","kitchen","loss","love","lover","lovers","mahatma-ghandi","man","mandela","marriage","men","mercy","mortgage","mother-teresa","nelson-mandela","nutrition","occupation","partner","partners","philosopher","philosophy","poverty","rent","rental","romance","satire","satirist","security","selfish","selfishness","selfless","selflessness","social-criticism","spouse","spouses","starvation","stomach","sympathy","teresa","tummy","unemployment","unselfish","unselfishness","woman","women"],"id":115241,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["art","artist","civilization","make-a-living","money","rent","sellout","social-commentary","survival"],"id":118594,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"But apparently you don't need dot-com wealth to ruin an area for its low-income residents. The Pioneer Press quotes Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo ruing the 'cruel irony' that prosperity is shrinking the stock of affordable housing nationwide: 'The stronger the economy, the stronger the upward pressure on rents.","author":"Barbara Ehrenreich","tags":["barbara-ehrenreich","gentrification","nickel-and-dimed","poverty","rent"],"id":133735,"author_id":"Barbara+Ehrenreich"},{"text":"American consumers benefit from disparity \u0026 exploitation. I benefit from disparity \u0026 exploitation \u0026 so does my family. There is no way to be a consumer in this country without causing pain' --casey gray - author of Discount - \u0026 my New HERO.","author":"Casey Gray","tags":["america","consumerism","exploitation","futility","product","rent"],"id":136896,"author_id":"Casey+Gray"},{"text":"If employment really cared about employees, people wouldn’t have to work until retirement comes to their rescue.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["bills","debt","employee","employer","employment","rent","rescue","retirement"],"id":165805,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}