Top 100 John Grisham Quotes
#1. I'm being followed so much I'm causing traffic jams.
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#2. Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up.
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#3. She was drained from the shock and fear of looking at the emotional wreckage of real humans, desperate people with little hope and looking to her for help.
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#4. Our clients are our only assets, so we kill ourselves for them.
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#5. I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never get out. They can never escape. They can never be paroled. Lock the bad ones away. But you gotta rethink everybody else.
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#7. I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
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#8. Love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of
your better future
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#9. He's a two-faced, cutthroat, dirt-dumb, chicken shit, slimy, little bastard with a bright future in politics.
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#10. if you don't think about death, you don't appreciate life.
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#11. Purvis. This is my associate, Samantha Kofer. We've been hired to get our client out of jail. Snowden took a step back as Mattie pressed ahead. Samantha, treading water, wasn't sure what to do, so
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#12. It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror.
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#13. How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?
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#15. (He) paused for a second and once more marveled at the speed with which one person's private business could be so thoroughly kicked around the neighborhood.
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#16. A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.
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#17. Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.
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#18. He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all.
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#20. Make friends with fear, Lucien always said, because it will not go away, and it will destroy you if left uncontrolled.
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#21. I'm here to tell you, separate was never equal.
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#22. not admit this. For him and his Chancery Court, a major trial was a nasty divorce
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#23. This woman has had the hell beaten out of her.
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#24. We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.
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#25. And it would be over in a flash. The state police are providing
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#26. My children know nothing of Christmas. They have so little, and want so little, it makes me feel guilty for the mindless materialism of our culture.
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#27. It's hard to read good fiction when I am writing, because if it is really good I catch myself sort of inadvertently imitating a great writer.
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#28. We've sent 130 men to death row to be executed in this country, at least 130 that we know of, who have later have been exonerated because they were either innocent, or they were not fairly tried. That's 130 people that we've locked down on death row. And they've spent years there.
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#29. the eight warrior cops and their chief are terminated before the civil trial, they would likely become hostile witnesses against the City.
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#30. I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.
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#31. He began by talking about daughters and how special they are. How they are different from little boys and need special protection. He told them of his own daughter and the special bond that exists between father and daughter, a bond that could not be explained and should not be tampered with.
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#32. You need some coffee, don't you?"
"Yes, I've only had a gallon.
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#33. Underwriting, an odious but not illegal practice. When a claim
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#34. What would his friends think? The Honorable Hatlee Beech, federal judge, writing prose like a faggot, extorting money out of innocent people.
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#35. Nor did she like society's way of presuming she was unhappy because she had not found the right guy.
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#37. Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
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#38. I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.
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#39. Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.
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#41. Her destination was the hospital in Beckley, West Virginia, a town of twenty thousand.
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#42. We were invincible because we were eighteen and stupid.
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#44. Never trust a white person black people don't like.
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#45. beautiful country with spectacular views. As
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#46. The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna's oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions. The
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#48. Agrees, then we cut a quick deal and get it over with. With some luck,
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#49. That's sounds right. Another $5,000 went to dress up the Little League park where he had played so many games. Seems like he paid off the MORTAGE on his parents' home, which wasn't that much.
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#50. There's always such a rush to judgment. It makes a fair trial hard to get.
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#51. I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.
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#52. I'm in shock now. I'm not believing this, Mitch. This is like a bad dream, only much worse." "And this is only the beginning.
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#53. And it's often the one you trust the most who'll cut your throat for the right price.
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#54. Americans no longer experience vacations. They simply Sony them so they can ignore them for the rest of the year.
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#55. She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads.
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#57. I was guilty all right. Guilty of stupidity for allowing myself to fall into such a mess.
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#58. This was Mississippi, where for years whites shot blacks for any reason or no reason and no one cared; where whites raped blacks and it was considered sport; where blacks were hanged for fighting back.
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#59. I was on the verge of tears, so I turned and ran past the trailer and along the field road until I was safely out of their sight. Then I ducked into the cotton and waited for friendly voices. I sat on the hot ground, surrounded by stalks four feet tall, and I cried, something I really hated to do.
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#60. His presence and testimony highlighted the unfairness of expecting an indigent defendant to get a fair trial without giving him access to forensic experts. Barney had requested such assistance months earlier, and Judge Jones had declined.
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#62. I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
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#63. I don't usually eat breakfast. I prefer to be asleep during the hours that it is served.
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#64. Writers are thieves, We steal stories. We steal names. We steal scenes. We observe the world and we take what we need and modify it.
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#65. You burn a man's pickup, and he's ready for war.
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#66. Quitting is not the answer. Life is not fair, and you can't quit every time something unfair happens to you.
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#67. family, and by the time they took their seats
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#69. In little pockets of conversation, old men were telling stories of ancient floods. Women were talking of about how much rain there'd been in other towns
Paragould, Lepanto, and Manila.
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#70. Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
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#71. She was forty-one years old, and she was tired. But the fatigue would pass. The old dreams of full-time motherhood and a cushy retirement were forever forgotten.
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#72. Like so many, this trial is not about the truth; it's about winning.
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#73. How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinful.
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#75. Writing's still the most difficult job I've ever had - but it's worth it.
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#76. My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.
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#79. They say a woman marries a man with the belief she can change him, and she can't. A man marries a woman with the belief that she won't change, and she does.
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#80. The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily above the cotton stalks.
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#81. Our prisons are packed. Our streets are filled with drugs. Who's winning the war? We've lost our minds.
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#84. forgotten by the world and by those you love
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#85. The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best
talking about other lawyers.
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#86. A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together
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#87. Fawcett, who had no valid reason to recuse
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#88. Once again I had asked an innocent question, and because of it, I was banished from the conversation.
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#89. Ten years from now I plan to be sitting here, looking out over my land. I hope I'll be writing books, but if not, I'll be on my pond fishing with my kids. I feel like the luckiest guy I know.
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#90. Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.
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#91. You just don't understand men, Samantha. Looking is automatic and it's harmless. We all look. Come on.
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#92. Lucien was sitting on his front porch, drinking
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#93. Appalachia was Appalachia, regardless of boundaries someone had set an eternity ago. A land of breathtaking beauty, of steep hills and rolling mountains
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#94. Girls, murder trials, secret witnesses. Life was suddenly very complicated.
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#95. 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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#96. Karen was only five minutes late. She hugged Samantha, pecked
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#97. The effort to validate the handwritten will of Seth Hubbard continued to unravel late Sunday morning,
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#98. It must be pretty cool being a lawyer," she said in awe.
"Cool" was not an adjective Jake would use. He was forced to admit to himself that it had been a long time since he viewed his profession as something other than tedious.
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#99. Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness.
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#100. the death penalty, and the sooner the better.
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