{"quotes":[{"text":"This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Smiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. He’d never broken the law, at least not irreparably. He was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously – which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. He had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors weren’t called cut-throats for nothing. 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It once expanded deep within his hidden soul, and following the downplay his audience is blown away.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["amazement","downplay","emotion","genius","gift","skill","soul","surprising","talent"],"id":106425,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["adversaries","back-bite","back-biting","behaviour","bite","biting","critics","enermies","flavor","flavour","foes","fresh","fresh-life","good-behaviour","good-habit","good-life","gossiping","gossips","habit","happy","haters","life","live-life-so-well","love","not-expected","obey","respect","smile","surprise","surprising","sweet","sweet-life","taste","unexpected"],"id":139325,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["conjurar","conjuring","magic","magical","magician","magicians","stories","story","storyteller","storytellers","storytelling","surprise","surprises","surprising"],"id":183855,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Success and failure are equally surprising.","author":"Daryl Hall","tags":["success","surprising","equally "],"id":260380,"author_id":"Daryl+Hall"},{"text":"This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him. Mister Smiff liked anonymity. He kept a low profile, often traveling under assumed names, claiming to be anything from a banker to a (very) successful life insurance salesman. He’d never broken the law, at least not irreparably. He was quite generous, well liked, sponsoring many charities anonymously – which is why it was so surprising to find him floating face down in the private spa in his apartment, murdered. He had been murdered, unless it was a freak shaving accident. Those old razors weren’t called cut-throats for nothing. Yikes.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["accident","anonymity","anonymously","apartment","charities","claiming","distana","for","freak","generous","he-d","him","in","irreparably","it","law","life","liked","look","murdered","names","never","not","nothing","often","old","ossifar","profile","razors","salesman","so","successful","surprising","the","this","to","traveling","unless","very","well","what","yikes"],"id":333107,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"He lifted his shirt, and on his back was the White Rabbit, wearing his waistcoat and looking at his watch. It was just like the illustration from the book. Only standing next to him, back-to-back, was another White Rabbit wearing a leather motercycle jacket and boots and smoking a cigar.","author":"Michael Thomas Ford","tags":["alice-in-wonderland","angel-and-demon","art","back","bipolar","deep","depression","illustrations","lewis-carroll","light","light-and-dark","personal","rabbits","shirt","surprising","tattoos","wow"],"id":473840,"author_id":"Michael+Thomas+Ford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}