William McIlvanney - Laidlaw (1977)

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Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.

William McIlvanney

Just as the apparent openness of rectitude will have its hidden places where foul things moulder in the dark, so, in the shadowed lives of those outside the law may sometimes be found concealed honesty and naive ideals.

William McIlvanney