{"quotes":[{"text":"A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["admiration","admire","crowd","endurance","fart","farting","favour","favouritism","funny","humor","humour","michael-bassey-johnson","poverty","unpopularity"],"id":152,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","cockiness","disrespect","fame","high-shoulders","ignorance","ignorant","insult","insults","madness","michael-bassey-johnson","popularity","pride","selfish","selfishness","unpopularity"],"id":51002,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["attention","banal","boring","boring-book","carnal","cruel","cruelty","disease","dog","ego","egoism","egoist","egotist","epidemic","humilation","impolite","impoliteness","improper","insult","insults","lack-of-respect","lackadaisical","lazarus","madness","maltreatment","michael-bassey-johnson","mistake","popularity","pride","readers","rigid","shallow","stupidity","unfeeling","unpopularity","vanity","weird","writers","writing"],"id":125144,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alone","bad-feelings","cancer","celebrity","chronic","consequences","desire","eye","face","fear","forefront","hide","hiding","isolation","limelight","lonliness","media","news","popularity","publicity","rejection","scandal","shame","significance","solitude","stage","unhappy","universe","unpopularity"],"id":210025,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"To be unpopular, you must look the part. Remember four words: plastic flowered swim cap.","author":"Jennifer Ziegler","tags":["funny","popularity","unpopularity"],"id":277208,"author_id":"Jennifer+Ziegler"},{"text":"Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.","author":"Stevie Smith","tags":["loneliness","lonely","love","loving","miserable","misery","trouble","unpopularity","worry"],"id":318772,"author_id":"Stevie+Smith"},{"text":"I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all I do is to rest on my couch because I have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["attraction","aura","beg","beggar","beggars","belief","believe-in-yourself","breakthrough","condescend","condescending","condescension","content","contented","conviction","equanimity","excel","fame","hiss","honor","honour","humility","individuality","meek","michael-bassey-johnson","money","much-ado-about-nothing","mystic","popularity","power-behind","pride","progress","reserved","self-reliance","self-respect","snake","unpopularity","withdrawal","withdrawn"],"id":319660,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The thing is, if you're an ugly goon when you're 15, you're an ugly goon for the rest of your life — until the day you die. You're always a goon, even if lots of years go by, even if you get married and have a kid, even if you're more successful than you ever thought you'd be in your wildest dreams. You're still that same goon who everybody laughed at. It never changes.","author":"David Handler","tags":["childhood-trauma","goon","inferiority","inferiority-complex","teen","unpopular","unpopularity"],"id":345075,"author_id":"David+Handler"},{"text":"It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.","author":"Edith Wharton","tags":["house-of-mirth","insignificance","unpopularity","vanity"],"id":398817,"author_id":"Edith+Wharton"},{"text":"Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["common","familiar","familiarity","food-for-thought","gifts","israelmore-ayivor","obscurity","overtake","popular","popularity","potentials","remarkable","road","skills","talents","uncommon","unfamiliar","unfamiliarity","unpopular","unpopularity"],"id":428390,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}