{"quotes":[{"text":"Confess your sins, pray towards the Heavens and be set free from all bondages.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["bygones","christain","christianity","confessions","confessions-of-faith","forgiveness","gods-grace","repentance","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":196,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Real artist cannot be blackmailed. I suspect they've been confessing shit all their life.","author":"Darnell Lamont Walker","tags":["artists","confessions"],"id":30826,"author_id":"Darnell+Lamont+Walker"},{"text":"I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea.","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["confessions","listening","longing","love","nostalgia","pride","regret"],"id":39975,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"},{"text":"Yes, I’ve killed! I’ve killed as indiscriminately as God! And yes, I will kill again. I must.","author":"N.B. Roberts","tags":["confessions","death","demons","killer","male-characters","vampires"],"id":43031,"author_id":"N.B.+Roberts"},{"text":"Although I was able to maintain a pleasant expression, I was mentally throwing up in her face.","author":"Augusten Burroughs","tags":["confessions","humor","magical-thinking"],"id":73450,"author_id":"Augusten+Burroughs"},{"text":"Fantastic,” I said without an ounce of enthusiasm. “I’m just one more embarrassing confession away from taking over the world.” --Spencer Nye.","author":"Jason Letts","tags":["confessions","dystopian-fiction","fame"],"id":84665,"author_id":"Jason+Letts"},{"text":"Who knew there were still people like that in this world, though? Everybody wants to talk about themselves, and everybody wants to hear everybody else's story, so we take turns playing reporter and celebrity. 'It must have made you very sad when your own father raped you - can you describe some of your feelings at the time? Yes, I wept and wept, wonder why something like this had to happen to me'. It's like that. Everyone's running around comparing wounds, like bodybuilders showing off their muscles. And what's really unbelievable is that they really believe they can heal the wounds like that, just by putting them on display.","author":"Ryū Murakami","tags":["confessions","sad","soul","wounds"],"id":86266,"author_id":"Ry%C5%AB+Murakami"},{"text":"I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.","author":"Gloria Whelan","tags":["confessions","wrong"],"id":99833,"author_id":"Gloria+Whelan"},{"text":"Pedro Algorta, a lawyer, showed me the fat dossier about the murder of two women. The double crime had been committed with a knife at the end of 1982, in a Montevideo suburb. The accused, Alma Di Agosto, had confessed. She had been in jail more than a year, and was apparently condemned to rot there for the rest of her life. As is the custom, the police had raped and tortured her. After a month of continuous beatings they had extracted several confessions. Alma Di Agosto's confessions did not much resemble each other, as if she had committed the same murder in many different ways. Different people appeared in each confession, picturesque phantoms without names or addresses, because the electric cattle prod turns anyone into a prolific storyteller. Furthermore, the author demonstrated the agility of an Olympic athlete, the strength of a fairground Amazon, and the dexterity of a professional matador. But the most surprising was the wealth of detail: in each confession, the accused described with millimetric precision clothing, gestures, surroundings, positions, objects..... Alma Di Agosto was blind. Her neighbours, who knew and loved her, were convinced she was guilty: 'Why?' asked the lawyer. 'Because the papers say so.' 'But the papers lie,' said the lawyer. 'But the radio said so too,' explained the neighbours. 'And the TV!","author":"Eduardo Galeano","tags":["confessions","crime","lies","media-manipulation","torture"],"id":110324,"author_id":"Eduardo+Galeano"},{"text":"Self-destruction is inevitable because existence is a full-time job.","author":"Benjamin DeHaven","tags":["confessions","enzo","to-live-by"],"id":156280,"author_id":"Benjamin+DeHaven"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}