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  1. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    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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  2. John Grisham _ The Rainmaker

    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. John Grisham _ Camino Island

    Plans-nothing ever goes as planned, and the survivors are the ones who can adapt on the fly.
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  4. John Grisham _ Sycamore Row

    A man shrewd enough and clever enough to amass such a fortune in ten years does not throw together
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  5. John Grisham _ Sycamore Row

    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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  6. John Grisham _ The Innocent Man: Murder and

    Justice cannot be equal where, simply as a result of his poverty, a defendant is denied the opportunity to participate meaningfully in a judicial proceeding in which his liberty is at stake.
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  7. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

    shook hands. She thanked him for his pro bono
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  8. John Grisham _ The Racketeer

    The Constitution names only three federal offenses: treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. Today there are over forty-five hundred federal crimes, and the number continues to grow as Congress gets tougher on crime and federal prosecutors become more creative in finding ways to apply all their new laws.
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  9. John Grisham _ Sycamore Row

    Booker Sistrunk sat awkwardly with his hands behind him and continued the mouthing: "You oughtta be ashamed of yourself, treating a brother like this." "The white guy's gettin' the same treatment," Ozzie said. "You're violating my civil rights." "And you're violatin' mine with your mouth. Now shut up or I'll lock you under the jail. We got a little basement down there.
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  10. John Grisham _ Sycamore Row

    When you have no future, you live in the past,
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  11. John Grisham _ A Time to Kill

    Lucien had taught him that fear was good; fear was an ally; that every lawyer was afraid when he stood before a new jury and presented his case. It was okay to be afraid - just don't show it. Jurors would not follow the lawyer with the quickest tongue or prettiest words. They would not follow the sharpest dresser. They would not follow a clown or court jester. They would not follow a lawyer who preached the loudest or fought the hardest. Lucien had convinced him that jurors followed the lawyer who told the truth, regardless of his looks, words, or superficial abilities. A lawyer had to be himself in the courtroom, and if he was afraid, so be it. The jurors were afraid too.
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  12. John Grisham _ Gray Mountain

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