“If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in the gutter”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“It wouldn't pay to get fresh with a missionary.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
“I believe in God,” he said, truthfully but weakly. “It’s easy to say that,” she said, her words still slow and soft. “And I don’t doubt you. But saying is one thing, living is another matter.”
― John Grisham, quote from The Testament
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“Throughout the millennia and across cultures, those who have thought carefully about desire have drawn the conclusion that spending our days working to get whatever it is we find ourselves wanting is unlikely to bring us either happiness or tranquility.”
― William B. Irvine, quote from A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
“Harry Anslinger is our own darkest impulses, given a government department and a license to kill.”
― Johann Hari, quote from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
“(...)while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.”
― Robert McKee, quote from Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
“Space doesn't just encompass the sublime and the ridiculous. It erases the line between.”
― Mary Roach, quote from Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from La Divina Comedia
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