{"quotes":[{"text":"I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm of Earth's day, Earth's year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["destiny","mankind","stephen-baxter"],"id":1296,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"A brief life burns brightly.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["life","science-fiction","stephen-baxter","youth"],"id":52283,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"},{"text":"The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future.Cut loose the past; it is dead weight.Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.","author":"Stephen Baxter","tags":["future","past","present","stephen-baxter","time"],"id":301783,"author_id":"Stephen+Baxter"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}