"The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera."

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Source : Josh Lanyon (2002). “A Dangerous Thing”, Millivres Books

Josh Lanyon

“I am a rubbish flirt.”
“You can't see the glory of life if you haven't seen the dark side of life.”
“Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.”
“There is an herb named in Latine Convolvulus (i.e. with wind), growing among shrubs and bushes, with carrieth a flower not unlike to this Lilly, save that it yeeldeth no smell nor hath those chives within; for whitenesse they resemble one another very much, as if Nature in making this floure were a learning and trying her skill how to frame the Lilly indeed.”
“My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.”
“The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sunâ€¦”
“No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.”

Source : Karen Tei Yamashita (1997). “Tropic of Orange: A Novel”
“I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.”

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