{"quotes":[{"text":"Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?","author":"John Ringo","tags":["bad-books","entertainment","sci-fi","self-deprecation"],"id":11515,"author_id":"John+Ringo"},{"text":"There are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.","author":"Amor Towles","tags":["laughter","self-deprecation"],"id":19582,"author_id":"Amor+Towles"},{"text":"I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to start when things are good. But only the very, very oddest would think, Hey, my life is perfect. I know! I’ll sit and waste twenty minutes Observing My Thoughts without Judgement.","author":"Marian Keyes","tags":["black-humour","crisis","distraction","humour","mindfulness","self-deprecation","thoughts","worry"],"id":26771,"author_id":"Marian+Keyes"},{"text":"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["intelligence","self-deprecation"],"id":29265,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.","author":"Norman Mailer","tags":["loathesome","self-deprecation","self-esteem"],"id":66665,"author_id":"Norman+Mailer"},{"text":"I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.","author":"Abraham Lincoln","tags":["friendship","life-and-living","self-deprecation"],"id":116640,"author_id":"Abraham+Lincoln"},{"text":"Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.","author":"Charles M. Schulz","tags":["be-yourself","confidence","experience","happiness","honesty","human-nature","inspirational","intelligence","joy","life","philosophy","self-deprecation","strategy","truth"],"id":133839,"author_id":"Charles+M.+Schulz"},{"text":"Goodness, I was already a dork most of the times. I didn't need to be a drunk or high dork.","author":"Jennifer L. Armentrout","tags":["dork","drinking","drugs","self-deprecation"],"id":166897,"author_id":"Jennifer+L.+Armentrout"},{"text":"The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.Scruples are alien to the black panther.Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions.The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations.The self-critical jackal does not exist.The locust, alligator, trichina, horseflylive as they live and are glad of it.The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing more animal-likethan a clear conscienceon the third planet of the Sun.","author":"Wisława Szymborska","tags":["experience","humanity","life","morality","self-deprecation"],"id":201166,"author_id":"Wis%C5%82awa+Szymborska"},{"text":"Lincoln said his spiky hair had 'a way of getting up in the world'.","author":"Harold Holzer","tags":["humility","leadership","self-deprecation"],"id":207757,"author_id":"Harold+Holzer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}