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  1. John Grisham _ The Client

    He lived forty-four years and no one cried at his funeral.
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  2. John Grisham _ The Client

    One good thing about jail is that it allows you to think a lot."
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  3. John Grisham _ The Client

    He's busy taking the fifth
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  4. John Grisham _ The Client

    Children make lousy clients. The lawyer becomes much more than a lawyer. With adults, you simply lay the pros and cons of each option on the table. You advise this way and that. You predict a little, but not much. Then you tell the adult it's time for a decision and you leave the room for a bit. When you return, you are handed a decision and you run with it. Not so with kids. They don't understand lawyerly advice. They want a hug and someone to make decisions. They're scared and looking for friends.
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  5. John Grisham _ The Client

    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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  6. John Grisham _ The Client

    There was something unfair about a system in which a little kid was brought into a courtroom and surrounded by lawyers arguing and sniping at each other under the scornful eye of a judge, the referee, and somehow in the midst of this barrage of laws and code sections and motions and legal talk the kid was supposed to know what was happening to him. It was hopelessly unfair."
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  7. John Grisham _ The Client

    You wired the kid," Truemann said meekly to no one in particular."Why not? No crime. You're the FBI, remember. You boys run more wire than AT&T."{Reggie Love}
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  8. John Grisham _ The Client

    You advised him not to get a lawyer, giving as one of your reasons the opinion that lawyers are a pain in the ass. Gentlemen, the pain is here.-Reggie Love
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  9. John Grisham _ The Client

    It's amazing how lies grow. You start with a small one that seems easy to cover, then you get boxed in and tell another one. Then another. People believe you at first, then they act upon your lies, and you catch yourself wishing you'd simply told the truth.
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