John Grisham Short Quotes

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When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

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There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.

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You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon.

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I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.

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I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

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He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.

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The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

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I guess under the right circumstances, a man will do just about anything.

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Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

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Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.

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A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.

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I was tired of secrets, tired of seeing things I was not supposed to see. And so I just cried.

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How could homosexuals possibly screw up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

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The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best — talking about other lawyers.

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It's as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.

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Once again I had asked an innocent question, and because of it, I was banished from the conversation.

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She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.

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My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.

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He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chickenshit, slimy little bastard... with a bright future in politics.

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I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.

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I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking.

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My name became a brand, and I'd love to say that was the plan from the start. But the only plan was to keep writing books.

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Privileged people don't march and protest; their world is safe and clean and governed by laws designed to keep them happy.

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The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.

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Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

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