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“criminal law is one of the few professions where the client buys someone else’s luck. the luck of most people is nontransferable. but a good criminal lawyer can sell all his luck to his client, and the more luck he sells the more he has to sell.”

shmecker - jewish drug enthusiast

“pushing junk is a constant strain on the nerves. sooner or later, you get the ‘copper jitters,’ and everybody looks like a cop. people moving about in the subway seem to be edging closer so they can grab you before you have a chance to throw away the junk.”

“the american upper-middle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. he is largely delineated by what he is not. gains went further. he was not mere negative. he was positively invisible; a vagud respectable presence. there is a certain kind of ghost that can only materialize with the aid of a sheet or other piece of cloth to give it outline. gaines was like that. he materialized in someone else’s overcoat.”

“morphine hits the back of the legs first, then the back of the neck, a spreading wave of relaxation slackening the muscles away from the bones so that you seem to float without outlines, like lying in warm salt water.”