{"quotes":[{"text":"I prefer to be a sad screwed stupid bitch, than a fucking liar, fake and pretender that has to put different masks per day.","author":"Sara Keddar","tags":["decision","honest","life","prefer","pretender","quality","realistic"],"id":25088,"author_id":"Sara+Keddar"},{"text":"Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["breeze","brown","chaos","crimson","crisis","denies","divided","fade","grass","grassblade","match","poem","poetry","poetry","pretend","pretender","quote","separated","smile","smile","soil","today","turmoil","twilight","wind","world-crisis"],"id":107033,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["admit","admitting","choice","choices","destination","fear","fearful","flee","fleeing","fool","foolish","foolishness","goal","intention","intentional","journey","painful","pretend","pretender","pretending","purposeful","run","running","thought","thoughtful","wisdom","wise"],"id":313122,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The steady soul and the ego pretender / walk with their arms round each other's shoulders / through the mirage.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["ego","mirage-publishing","pretend","pretender","soul","steady"],"id":364288,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"When we perceive aliens as a joke to be laughed at,they feel so pity for us on the success of their plans.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["humans","joke","pretender"],"id":457212,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["act","acting","actor","actors","adage","adages","animal","animals","aphorism","aphorisms","audacity","axiom","axioms","balls","be-yourself","boldness","brave","bravery","cojones","conform","conforming","conformity","courage","courageous","courageousness","daring","dead","death","deep","dictum","dictums","die","epigram","epigrams","facade","facades","fear","fearful","fearlessness","fit-in","fitting-in","fruit","fruits","gallantry","gnome","gnomes","grit","guts","hardihood","heroism","herself","himself","human","human-being","human-beings","humans","humor","humour","insightful","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","inspired","intrepidity","kill","killed","lemon","lemons","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","motivated","motivational","motive","moxie","murder","murdered","nerve","nonconformity","oneself","orange","people","peoples","person","persons","plant","plants","pluck","pluckiness","pretend","pretender","pretenders","pretending","produce","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","self","spunk","standing-out","standout","themselves","thought-provoking","thoughtful","tree","trees","true-grit","valour","words-to-live-by","yourself"],"id":460394,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}