Top 100 Quotes About John Grisham

#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. Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

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#4. His book, The Dreams of Ada, was published by Viking in April 1987 and was greatly anticipated by the town.

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#5. We all have our little secrets, and as long as they're harmless, who really cares? With time, the secrets often go away and things don't matter anymore.

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#6. Litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits.

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#7. Focused ultrasound therapy is still in its early stages, still experimental, but there is enough research to date to be very optimistic.

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#8. son of a freed slave who took possession of

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#9. At times he thinks like a terrorist, then he cries like a little child.
- Reggie Love

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#10. No, thanks. They won't go away. You take care of Ricky and Mom, and me and the lawyer'll take care of the FBI.

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#11. I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.

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#12. Paul's story to have a happier ending - for ourselves

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#13. On the other end, his mother said,

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#14. Next, a young black kid was brought in and his handcuffs

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#15. Well, in my world, our world, there are too many guns and too many bad things happen because of them." Pippin,

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#16. We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in every field. I didn't make it and I don't belong, so I'll just go through life hating them.

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

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#19. impulsively as his shoulders sagged. "Reputation,

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#20. He sketches a world of Darwinian struggle where all the savages wear three-piece suits.

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#21. In his haste to get his client on and off the stand with as little damage as possible, Barney neglected to rebut most of the allegations from the state's witnesses. Ron could have explained his "dream confession" to Rogers and Featherstone the night after his arrest.

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#22. The relief came from the sudden realization that she had just been freed from a job she despised.

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#23. Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

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#24. It's a game. We tax lawyers teach the rich how to play it so they can stay rich-and the IRS keeps changing the rules so we can keep getting rich teaching them.

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#25. Our clients are our only assets, so we kill ourselves for them.

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#26. He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.

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#27. let's get away from him, go somewhere else.' I

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

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#29. I struggle with racism every day

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#30. 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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#31. Some people have more guts than brains.

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#32. I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.

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#33. 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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#34. Love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of
your better future

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#35. Don't ever get involved in politics, Theo. It's a dirty game.

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#36. She nodded again, and took a deep breath. A small tear managed to find its way through the swelling and dropped onto her left cheek. He

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#37. Jesus preached more and taught more about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry than he did about heaven and hell. Shouldn't that tell us something?

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#38. London now has its own John Grisham.

Mark Billingham

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#39. and exactly twenty-one feet from the ground. From there it fell about nine feet, culminating in a perfect hangman's knot, one that Seth had undoubtedly worked on for some time. The noose was straight from the textbook with thirteen

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#40. If the video camera was loaded with a tape, it was never seen. If Detective Smith made a report of the interview, it was never produced in the legal proceedings that followed.

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

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#42. if you don't think about death, you don't appreciate life.

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#43. 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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#44. Smithsonian is actually a group of nineteen different museums and a zoo,

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#45. in Italian. For the first time in his new home, Rick admitted to himself that learning a few words was not a bad idea. In fact, it was a great idea if he had any hope of scoring points with the girls.

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#46. He hadn't hit her in several years, but when you've been beaten you never forget it. The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw. You stay beaten. It takes a real coward to beat a woman.

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#47. I don't trust judges. Perhaps it's the nature of my profession. I like knockouts, not decisions.

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#48. It preyed on human desire and it paid off by sheer terror.

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#49. How could homosexuals possibly srew up the sanctity of marriage any worse than heterosexuals?

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#50. I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay.

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#51. Strippers. Get them a job, then an apartment, buy some clothes, feed them nice dinners, and then they get culture and start making demands. They were an expensive habit, but one he could not break.

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

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#53. What did you talk

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#54. In the United States we spend $40,000 a year to incarcerate each prison inmate and $8,000 to educate each elementary school student.

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#55. (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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#56. A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure.

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#57. The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.

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#58. 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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#59. Some of our clients have not been saints, but no lawyer can dictate morals to his client.

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#60. Every morning I wake at 6am or 6.30am, champing at the bit.

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#61. confidant, paralegal, caddie, and only friend. I earned

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#62. He was a quiet man, not lonely and not shy, but cerebral and serious.

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

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#64. haven't seen them in some time. I

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#65. 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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#66. Prisons are fascinating places, especially when the inmates are educated white-collar types.

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#67. I'm here to tell you, separate was never equal.

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#68. not admit this. For him and his Chancery Court, a major trial was a nasty divorce

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#69. Some of his transactions involved Ada policemen, specifically one Dennis Corvin, whom Gore described as a primary supplier

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#70. This woman has had the hell beaten out of her.

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#71. unduly influenced

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#72. Did you know that some of the counties in the coalfields have the highest rates of cancer in the country?

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#73. 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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#74. And it would be over in a flash. The state police are providing

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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. Why bother with a trial? If the cops can't convict with evidence, they use the media to convict with suspicion.

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#78. He made a mistake, one that would send him to death row and eventually cost him his freedom for life.

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#79. Every company of a certain size must have committed egregious sins to succeed in the cutthroat world of Western capitalism.

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#80. Ethics are determined by what they catch you doing. If you don't get caught, then you haven't violated any ethics.

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#81. I had never seen a woman's breasts before, and I doubted if any seven-year-old boy in Craighead County had. Maybe some kid had stumbled upon his mother, but I was certain no boy my age had never had this view.

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#82. Answered his knock with a smile, a short one forced through because she was at heart a warm person, not given to the dark mood swings which now plagued her.

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#83. 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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#84. You live your life today, Not tommorow, and certainly not yesterday.

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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. Towns with redbrick buildings and whitewashed

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#88. A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.

Charlotte Rampling

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#89. If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

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#90. Hubbard obtained the land from Sylvester's widow.

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#91. 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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#92. Too poor to paint and too proud to whitewash.

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#93. was in the Gray family forever, way back to the early

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#94. know for sure that a crime is being planned. He said some things any father would say, and I'm sure he's having thoughts any father would have. But as far as actually planning a crime, I don't think so. Secondly,

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

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#96. deal with self-righteous prosecutors who lie, cheat, stonewall, cover up, ignore ethics, and do whatever it takes to get a conviction, even when they know the truth and the truth tells them they are wrong.

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#97. Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz and John Grisham would be great fiction writers, and by any but the most commercial standards they're not even very good.

David Foster Wallace

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#98. When you wake up tomorrow, another day is behind you. The days add up; the weeks run together; the months become years.

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#99. or was he really asleep? Her first

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#100. I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

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