Trial Quotes

“And also don’t forget, the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“fishing equipment and lawn mowers, bought the goods in one branch of Kmart and then returned them in other branches for a full refund. Like most crooks with a workable scam, Virgil Freer did it once”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“He was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you’ve got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don’t want, and forget about what you can’t have.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“at first we love the illusion of perfection. Later we come to love imperfections, because they signal vulnerability: and what we love, we yearn to protect.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“goddam upset me." She”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“and”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“bastards”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“...to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“...to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight forwhat you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have...”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“cordial”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“OLD AGE AND TREACHERY WILL OVERCOME YOUTH AND SKILL.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies. Your own naiveté was one of those enemies. You had to battle it, and improvise, and guard your back.  See”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“Why do politicians have one more brain cell than horses do?" Riddles were her favorites, he guessed. He said that he didn’t know why. "So they won’t shit on the street during parades." He”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“You got the firing squad?" "No, that’s inhuman—those guys can miss and they gutshoot you. You hang a man, that knot can slip and he can strangle. Electric chair, he sizzles, been known to catch fire. Gas chamber, he pukes and yells. Texas is more modern. Here we drug a man, then inject cyanide into a vein. They say it doesn’t hurt. No one’s ever come back to say yea or nay." Pedro”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“at first we love the illusion of perfection. Later we come to love imperfections, because they signal vulnerability: and what we love, we yearn to protect. He”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“You know the story of the Harvard graduate comes to Texas a while back and says to his rancher uncle, ‘Uncle Will, how come you can get heavier punishment here for stealing a cow than for killing a man?’ Uncle Will says, ‘Look out the window. See those cows out to pasture? See any of them look like they need stealing?’ " Warren”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“Life moved on like a river, and water could not long remember the bruise it had received from a rock upstream.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you’ve got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don’t want, and forget about what you can’t have.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“buzz in his head was wonderfully liberating,”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“Why do women have cunts?" "I can’t imagine." "So that men will talk to them.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“things like, "He ain’t much to see, but he looks real good through the bottom of a glass.”
― Clifford Irving, Trial

“get him." He stopped for a”
― Clifford Irving, Trial