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The Rainmaker

John Grisham

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Some people have more guts than brains.”

“I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.”

“Please give me fifty more years of work and fun, then an instant death when I'm sleeping.”

“I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know.”

“A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard.”

“All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we care for nothing but the right job with the right firm where we can make partner in seven years and earn big bucks.”

“The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.”

“life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.”

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

“There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.”

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Book Keywords:

lawyering, righteousness, courage, truth, spousal-abuse, truth-of-life, life-and-living, legal-education

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