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Scavenger Reef (Key West, #2) QUOTES

Scavenger Reef (Key West, #2) QUOTES

1 " You have reached the home and workplace of Roberto Natchez. I do not often take calls. I make no promise to return them. I have much to do. You may leave a message if you wish. "

― Laurence Shames , Scavenger Reef (Key West, #2)

2 " On thick-built men like Joe Mulvane, they tend to bind around the thighs, the back seam has an annoying tendency to crawl between the buttocks. When such men sit and lean forward, say, against a bar, the waistband of their trousers binds them in the belly, while at the base of their spines an unattractive gap appears and seems to tug their shirttails out as well as to create a natural channel for sweat to pour. A belt doesn't close the trench in back; it only presents a retaining wall that bites into the flesh below the navel. "

― Laurence Shames , Scavenger Reef (Key West, #2)

3 " Art happens when a person of talent is seized with nervous energy and discovers that he or she has nothing to do except create. "

― Laurence Shames , Scavenger Reef (Key West, #2)

4 " He would be the kind of friend he wished he had, and so perhaps become worthy of having such a friend himself. "

― Laurence Shames , Scavenger Reef (Key West, #2)

5 " a lavishly gifted underachiever who is gaining renown less for the canvases he paints than for those we hope he'll paint. "

― Laurence Shames , Scavenger Reef (Key West, #2)

6 " There are towns, you know, for making money. Towns to start a career. Towns to go to college. Towns to raise a family. Key West is no damn good for any of that. Key West is to feel good and be happy. That's all. "

― Laurence Shames , Scavenger Reef (Key West, #2)

7 " With the usual snarls and sneers he read the dismal unreal news briefs from the outside world, terse by-the-way accounts of coups and famines, scandals and indictments, riots and revolutions. In everything he read he saw confirmation of what he knew: that the truth was everywhere suppressed, fakery in gross but temporary triumph. In Africa as in Russia, in politics as in culture, the appalling pattern held: Lying mediocrity prospered while deep honesty could only fume and seethe and starve, and so it would continue until there was a Liberator clear-eyed enough to show the world its vileness, and strong and cruel enough to root the vileness out. "

― Laurence Shames , Scavenger Reef (Key West, #2)