{"quotes":[{"text":"We had never eaten our own chickens but we delighted in eating their eggs. No matter how hot the summer became, they always presented us with eggs, which I thought was very generous of them, considering the heat. I'm sure I wouldn't have bothered.","author":"Victoria Twead","tags":["memoir","spain"],"id":20819,"author_id":"Victoria+Twead"},{"text":"My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and loiter with me day by day until we gradually become familiar with all its localities.","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["palace","spain"],"id":56734,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012).","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["2012","apothecary","caress","girl","love","medicine","melancholia","melancholy","november","pharmacy","pills","rain","roman","roman-payne","spain","spanish","valencia","wine","woman"],"id":96552,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"To the traveller imbued with a feeling for the historical and poetical, so inseparately interwined in the annals of romantic Spain, the Alhambra is a much an object of devotion as is the Caaba to all true Moslems. How many legends and traditions, true and fabulous, - how many songs and ballards, Arabian and Spanish, of love and war and chivalry, are associated with this Oriental pile!","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["legend","muslim","spain","travel"],"id":103939,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. 'Individual sovereignty' is a prime tenet of most anarchist writing; the free development of one' s individual potential is one of the basic 'rights' to which all humans are born. Yet Spanish anarchists were firmly rooted in the communalist-anarchist tradition. For them, freedom was fundamentally a social product: the fullest expression of individuality and of creativity can be achieved only in and through community. As Carmen Conde (a teacher who was also active in Mujeres Libres) wrote, describing the relationship of individuality and community: 'I and my truth; I and my faith ... And I for you, but without ever ceasing to be me, so that you can always be you. Because I don' t exist without your existence, but my existence is also indispensable to yours.","author":"Martha A. Ackelsberg","tags":["anarchism","feminism","spain","spanish-anarchists"],"id":106909,"author_id":"Martha+A.+Ackelsberg"},{"text":"To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apartheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.","author":"Peter Singer","tags":["animal-rights","apartheid","bullfighting","canada","compassion","science","seals","south-africa","south-korea","spain"],"id":108680,"author_id":"Peter+Singer"},{"text":"Such were our minor preparations for the journey, but above all we laid in an ample stock of good-humour, and a genuine disposition to be pleased; determining to travel in true contrabandista style; taking things as we found them, rough or smooth, and mingling with all classes and conditions in a kind of vagabond companionship. It is the true way to travel in Spain.","author":"Washington Irving","tags":["happiness","spain","travel"],"id":125133,"author_id":"Washington+Irving"},{"text":"It's very kind of you to take us in,' said the vicar, smiling. 'We're so sorry if we've put you out at all.' 'Not at all!' I said, lying through my teeth.","author":"Victoria Twead","tags":["memoir","spain"],"id":137727,"author_id":"Victoria+Twead"},{"text":"Spain is more vegan-friendly than you've been led to believe. The truth is, most places are.","author":"Wendy Werneth","tags":["spain","travel","travel","traveling","vegan","vegan","veganism"],"id":143292,"author_id":"Wendy+Werneth"},{"text":"So many hilarious scenes and seductions!","author":"Dennis McKay","tags":["bird-watching","fiction","philandering","seduction","spain"],"id":147463,"author_id":"Dennis+McKay"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}