{"quotes":[{"text":"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["acceptable","accomplishment","account","accounts","adeptness","admissible","agony","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appreciation","apprehension","awareness","be-acquainted-with","be-conversant-with","be-familiar-with","be-up-to-speed-on","be-versed-in","benighted","book","books","brookable","capability","capacity","cognition","cognizance","command","comprehend","comprehension","consciousness","cultivated","cultured","desolation","despair","discomfort","distress","educated","education","endurable","enlightened","entertain","entertaining","entertainment","erudite","erudition","escape","escapism","essay","essays","expertise","expertness","fiction","funny","grasp","grief","have-a-grasp-of","have-knowledge-of","have-learned","have-mastered","have-memorized","heartache","heartbreak","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","ignorance","ignorant","illiterate","inexperienced","insufferable","insupportable","intolerable","joke","jokes","know","knowledgable","knowledge","knowledgeable","learned","learning","literature","man-of-letters","manageable","mastery","men-of-letters","misery","narrative","narratives","nonfiction","novel","overpowering","pain","perception","proficiency","quotations","quotes","realization","sadness","satire","scholarly","scholarship","schooling","skill","sorrow","stories","story","sufferable","suffering","supportable","sustainable","tolerable","too-much","torment","torture","unacceptable","unbearable","understand","understanding","uneducated","unendurable","unenlightened","unhappiness","uninformed","unknowledgeable","unlearned","unlettered","unmanageable","unread","unschooled","unsophisticated","untaught","untrained","untutored","unworldly","via-dolorosa","well-educated","well-informed","well-read","wisdom","woman-of-letters","women-of-letters","wretchedness","writer","writers"],"id":114644,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","ity","axiom","axioms","bondage","child","children","control","controlling","cultivated","cultured","deep","deep-pockets","dictum","dictums","dominance","dominate","domination","dominion","dwarf","dwarfs","economies","economy","educated","education","employed","employment","enlightened","enslavement","epigram","epigrams","erudite","fool","foolish","fools","freedom","funny","giant","giants","gnome","gnomes","humor","humorous","humour","ignoramus","ignorant","impossibilities","impossible","influence","informed","insightful","intelligent","invent","invented","invention","job","jobs","kid","kids","knowledge","knowledgeable","made-me-think","make-you-think","master","masters","mastery","maxim","maxims","midget","midgets","money","monied","monies","old","philosopher","poor","possibilities","possibility","possible","poverty","power","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","rich","riches","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","scholarly","serfdom","servitude","slave-master","slave-masters","slavery","south-africa","south-african","strong","thought-provoking","thoughtful","thrall","thralldom","vassalage","weak","weakness","wealth","wealthy","well-educated","well-informed","well-read","wisdom","wise","work","working","young"],"id":256970,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"In our land of opportunities and distractions, it's hard to devote our attention to the quiet pleasures of reading. It's as if we live our lives in a noisy restaurant and can't have the intimate conversation we most yearn for.","author":"Steve Leveen","tags":["guide","reading","well-read"],"id":328654,"author_id":"Steve+Leveen"},{"text":"I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.","author":"Richard Smyth","tags":["books","intelligence","knowledge","philosophy","richard-smyth","stupidity","well-read","wild-ink","wisdom"],"id":332668,"author_id":"Richard+Smyth"},{"text":"For several years, while I searched for, found, and studied black women writers, I deliberately shut O'Connor out, feeling almost ashamed that she had reached me first. And yet, even when I no longer read her, I missed her, and realized that though the rest of America might not mind, having endured it so long, I would never be satisfied with a segregated literature. I would have to read Zora Hurston and Flannery O'Connor, Nella Larsen and Carson McCullers, Jean Toomer and William Faulkner, before I could begin to feel well read at all.","author":"Alice Walker","tags":["literature","perspective","reading","segregation","well-read"],"id":429894,"author_id":"Alice+Walker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}