{"quotes":[{"text":"War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.","author":"Charles Maurice de Talleyrand","tags":["men","military","serious "],"id":804,"author_id":"Charles+Maurice+de+Talleyrand"},{"text":"Serious people are not easily distracted!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["confusion","distraction","focus","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","passionate","serious","serious-people"],"id":8741,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"All serious daring starts from within.","author":"Eudora Welty","tags":["serious","daring","within "],"id":9786,"author_id":"Eudora+Welty"},{"text":"...The literary manifestation of the mind-body dichotomy that dominates today's culture: the split between the 'serious' and the 'entertaining' - the belief that if a literary work is 'serious,' it must bore people to death; and if it is 'entertaining,' it must not communicate anything of importance. (Which means that 'the good' has to be painful, and that pleasure has to be mindlessly low-grade.).","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["entertaining","good","pleasure","serious"],"id":23240,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"I’ve only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a 'serious' novel.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["experience","growth","hard-times","hardship","jail","jailbird","learning","literature","novels","prison","roman-payne","serious","seriousness"],"id":23955,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.","author":"Vladimir Lenin","tags":["serious","masses","where "],"id":25624,"author_id":"Vladimir+Lenin"},{"text":"Serious sport is war minus the shooting.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["serious","shooting","minus "],"id":34676,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["appear","disappear","humans","murat-ildan","serious","serious","seriousness","universe","universe","unserious"],"id":44266,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"What are humans? They are unserious creatures in this serious universe! And because they are unserious, they appear and disappear quickly!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["appear","disappear","humans","murat-ildan","serious","serious","seriousness","universe","universe","unserious"],"id":44266,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.","author":"Sophie Swetchine","tags":["serious","part","frivolous "],"id":46786,"author_id":"Sophie+Swetchine"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":94,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}