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I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.

Scott Turow

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Scott Turow

After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived.

Scott Turow

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

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As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system-the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges-would take care of that; they didn't need his help.

Scott Turow

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

Scott Turow

Scott Turow

Scott Turow

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Born: April 12, 1949 (age 76)

Bio: Scott Frederick Turow is an American author and lawyer. Turow has written nine fiction and two nonfiction books, which have been translated into more than 40 languages and sold more than 30 million copies.

Known for:

Presumed Innocent (1987)
Personal Injuries (1999)
The Burden of Proof (1990)
One L (1977)
Reversible Errors (2002)

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