{"quotes":[{"text":"I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wanted my hour a week to make the difference between a future addicted to heroin and a future studying English at Oxford. That was the sort of kid I wanted, and instead they'd given me someone whose chief interest was in eating fruit. I mean, what did he need to read for? There's an international symbol for the gents' toilets, and he could always get his mother to tell him what was on television.","author":"Nick Hornby","tags":["children","disadvantaged","english","fruit","gents-toilets","heroin","intelligent","learning-to-read","martin-sharpe","oxford","pacino","prodigy","reading","symbol","telly","tutoring"],"id":173512,"author_id":"Nick+Hornby"},{"text":"You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["abode","abodes","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","atheism","atheist","atheists","bible","book","books","bookshop","bookshops","bookstore","bookstores","bookworm","bookworms","college","colleges","cook","cook-book","cook-books","education","employ","employment","essay","essays","fail","funny","god","hilarious","home","homes","house","houses","humor","humorous","humour","idiot-box","joke","jokes","knowledge","libraries","library","literature","marks","pass","pass-mark","please","quotations","quotes","reader","readers","reading","religion","satire","school","schooling","scripture","scriptures","study","studying","television","telly","tv","universities","university","verse"],"id":199828,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}