"Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"Critics should find meaningful work."
— John Grisham

"You live your life today,
Not tommorow,
and certainly not yesterday."
— John Grisham

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And they drank heavily, partied with great enthusiasm, and relished the drug culture; they moved in and out and slept around, and this was okay because they defined their own morality. They were fighting for the Mexicans and the redwoods, dammit! They had to be good people!

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— John Grisham (The Brethren)

"Some people have more guts than brains."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough."
— John Grisham (The Testament)

"When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious."
— John Grisham (The Testament)

"I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better"
— John Grisham

"I don't feel stupid, just inadequate. After three years of studying the law, I'm very much aware of how little I know."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"He's my client, and he's counting on me. I'll take him, warts and all."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"A battered wife is a married woman until she gets a divorce. Or until she kills the bastard."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God."
— John Grisham (The Testament)

"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."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road."
— John Grisham (The Testament)

""The Senator did not know who owned the jet, nor had he ever met Mr. Trudeau, which in most cultures would seem odd since Rudd had taken so much money from the man. But in Washington, money arrives through a myriad of strange and nebulous conduits. Often those taking it have only a vague idea of where it's coming from; often they have no clue. In most democracies, the transference of so much cash would be considered outright corruption, but in Washington the corruption has been legalized. Senator Rudd didn't know and didn't care that he was owned by other people."
— John Grisham (The Appeal)

"The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"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."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"It takes just one, he says over and over. You hear that all the time in this business. One big case, and you can retire. That's one reason lawyers do so many sleazy things, like full-color ads in the yellow pages, and billboards, and placards on city buses, and telephone solicitation. You hold your nose, ignore the stench of what you're doing, ignore the snubs and snobbery of big-firm lawyers, because it takes only one."
— John Grisham (The Rainmaker)

"It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary."
— John Grisham (The Testament)

"The president had shifted to the 'we' mode now, something he invariably did when a potentially unpopular decision was at hand. For the easy ones, it was always 'I.' When he needed a crutch, and especially when he would need someone to blame, he opened up the decisionmaking process and included Critz."
— John Grisham (The Broker)

"I looked at her and tried to speak, but all I could think about was how shocked she'd be if I said what I was thinking."
— John Grisham (A Painted House)

"What would his friends think? The Honorable Hatlee Beech, federal judge, writing prose like a faggot, extorting money out of innocent people."
— John Grisham (The Brethren)

"I'M AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
— John Grisham (The Chamber)