{"quotes":[{"text":"The monkey liked most humans. They left food cans outside their homes for his family to rummage through in the morningsun. Some yelled and threw sticks, but were slow and didn’t bite. Humans were mostly harmless.","author":"Cole Alpaugh","tags":["fiction","literary","novel","story","thailand"],"id":17970,"author_id":"Cole+Alpaugh"},{"text":"I didn't get the impression that the policeman cared much about the whole thing either. After another thirty minutes of ruthless interrogation ('Can you ve'fy you eat banan' pancake?') he let me go asking me not to leave Khao San within 24 hours.","author":"Alex Garland","tags":["police","thailand","travel"],"id":36456,"author_id":"Alex+Garland"},{"text":"Why is it that one of the best songs in the world has to be written by the BeeGees?'Benedict.","author":"Tricia Walker","tags":["bridge-on-river-kwai","buddhism","harley-davidson","inspirational","self-discovery","spirituality","thailand"],"id":44999,"author_id":"Tricia+Walker"},{"text":"No sun cream or condoms, just in case you’re looking at the lady-boys. There’s plenty of AIDS lingering about and every STD you can imagine.","author":"Simon Palmer","tags":["crime-fiction","crime-thriller","prison","suspense-thriller","thailand"],"id":99009,"author_id":"Simon+Palmer"},{"text":"If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?","author":"David Mellonie","tags":["angkor-wat","buddhism","cambodia","chiang-mai","khmer-rouge","ladyboys","land-mines","photography","thailand","travel"],"id":115037,"author_id":"David+Mellonie"},{"text":"Money cannot buy you 'HEALTH.","author":"Henry Johnson Jr","tags":["bangkok","buy","health","liberia","love","lover","manila","money","thailand"],"id":137369,"author_id":"Henry+Johnson+Jr"},{"text":"We were not born into this life knowingthat we were going to becomerich or poor, striving or with a celeb status, sick or healthy.But one thing that I know is thatthe human mind is a powerful tool to achieve success. No matter the circumstances,greatness is when you pushyourself above the odds.","author":"Henry Johnson Jr","tags":["attitude","circumstances","liberia","life","london-city","norway","positive","thailand","usa"],"id":142175,"author_id":"Henry+Johnson+Jr"},{"text":"Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile ‘cigarette and sweets’ stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road turned local byway.","author":"Jennifer S. Alderson","tags":["asia","backpacking","memoir","nepal","thailand","travel","travel","travel-writing","traveling-abroad","traveling-alone","volunteering"],"id":209628,"author_id":"Jennifer+S.+Alderson"},{"text":"No need for Jesus and the Lord Buddha to fight.","author":"Carol Hollinger","tags":["buddhism","christianity","thailand"],"id":217086,"author_id":"Carol+Hollinger"},{"text":"One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.","author":"Kevin Kwan","tags":["time","wish","thailand "],"id":230154,"author_id":"Kevin+Kwan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}