{"quotes":[{"text":"You swallow hard when you discover that the old coffee shop is now a chain pharmacy, that the place where you first kissed so-and-so is now a discount electronics retailer, that where you bought this very jacket is now rubble behind a blue plywood fence and a future office building. Damage has been done to your city. You say, ''It happened overnight.'' But of course it didn't. Your pizza parlor, his shoeshine stand, her hat store: when they were here, we neglected them. For all you know, the place closed down moments after the last time you walked out the door. (Ten months ago? Six years? Fifteen? You can't remember, can you?) And there have been five stores in that spot before the travel agency. Five different neighborhoods coming and going between then and now, other people's other cities. Or 15, 25, 100 neighborhoods. Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.","author":"Colson Whitehead","tags":["chain-stores","change","consumerism","individuality","loss","memories","modern-society","mom-and-pop-stores","neighborhoods","new-york-city","retail","transience"],"id":6042,"author_id":"Colson+Whitehead"},{"text":"But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.","author":"Prince","tags":["ephemeral","time","transience"],"id":13593,"author_id":"Prince"},{"text":"I can generally bear the separation  but I don't like the leave-taking.","author":"Samuel Butler","tags":["change","transience"],"id":53279,"author_id":"Samuel+Butler"},{"text":"There are three things which the public will always clamor for  sooner or later: namely  novelty  novelty  novelty.","author":"Thomas Hood","tags":["change","transience"],"id":61207,"author_id":"Thomas+Hood"},{"text":"The more things change  the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change  plus c'est la meme chose.).","author":"Alphonse Karr","tags":["change","transience"],"id":69309,"author_id":"Alphonse+Karr"},{"text":"All changes  even the most longed for  have their melancholy  for what we leave behind us is apart of ourselves  we must die to one life before we can enter into another.","author":"Anatole France","tags":["change","transience"],"id":90253,"author_id":"Anatole+France"},{"text":"All things must change to something new  to something strange.","author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","tags":["change","transience"],"id":101347,"author_id":"Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow"},{"text":"Change must be measured from a known base line.","author":"Evan Shute","tags":["change","transience"],"id":108876,"author_id":"Evan+Shute"},{"text":"As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.","author":"Ovid","tags":["change","poetry","renewal","time","transience"],"id":110597,"author_id":"Ovid"},{"text":"Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.","author":"Yoshida Kenkō","tags":["beauty","blossom","emotion","longing","moon","rain","spring","transience"],"id":115442,"author_id":"Yoshida+Kenk%C5%8D"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":53,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}