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John Grisham
Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.
John Grisham
Prisons
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Society
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Hate
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Social Commentary
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Criminal Justice
John Grisham’s Quotes On Topics
Life Choices
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Excitement
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Individuality
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Propaganda
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Artistic Effort
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Everyday Challenges
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Personal Reflection
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Human Behavior
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Moral Consistency
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Regional Characteristics
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Presumption Of Innocence
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Past
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Persistence
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Testimony
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Stubbornness
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South
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Personal Branding
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Oversight
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Media
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More John Grisham Quotes
“That's the mission of The Innocence Project in New York, is to exonerate people who have been wrongfully convicted, and also work from a policy angle with Congress and state legislatures to prevent future wrongful convictions.”
John Grisham
Justice
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Exoneration
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Legal Reform
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Wrongful Convictions
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Advocacy Work
“On the console between us is a 9-millimeter Glock, properly purchased and registered by him.”
John Grisham
Gun
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Firearm
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Legality
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Tension
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Character Detail
“I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.”
John Grisham
Legal Profession
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Client Relationships
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Incarceration
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Personal Reflections
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Advocacy
“I'm not good at raising money. I don't like to raise money. It's been my experience that when I ask someone for money, it's not long before they return the favor.”
John Grisham
Fundraising
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Relationships
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Reciprocity
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Personal Discomfort
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Social Dynamics
“God help us, if ever in this great country we turn our heads while people who have not had fair trials are executed. That almost happened in this case.”
John Grisham
Justice
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Execution
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Fairness
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Advocacy
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Moral Responsibility
“It’s as if we spend our entire lives avoiding Jell-O but it is always there at the end, waiting.”
John Grisham
Life
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Inevitability
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Humor
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Metaphor
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Personal Reflection
“My decision to become a lawyer was irrevocably sealed when I realized my father hated the legal profession.”
John Grisham
Family
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Career Choice
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Influence
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Father-son Relationship
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Personal History
“Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.”
John Grisham
Writing
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Passion
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Dedication
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Creativity
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Personal Drive
“You burn a man’s pickup, and he’s ready for war.”
John Grisham
Revenge
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Conflict
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Human Nature
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Rural Life
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Social Dynamics
“There's an old adage in bad trial lawyering that when you don't have the facts, do a lot of yelling.”
John Grisham
Legal Strategy
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Rhetoric
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Courtroom Tactics
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Persuasion
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Professional Critique
“You know what they say – the reason divorce is so expensive is because it’s worth it.”
John Grisham
Divorce
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Finances
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Relationships
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Societal Observations
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Humor
“I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges. William Faulkner was a great literary genius. I am not.”
John Grisham
Writing
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Self-awareness
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Literary Genres
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Author Identity
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Humility
“The sixth and last eulogy was from Roderick, Hugo and Verna’s oldest child. He wrote a three-page tribute to his father, and it was read by the reverend. Even Michael Geismar, a cold-blooded Presbyterian, finally succumbed to his emotions.”
John Grisham
Eulogy
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Family
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Grief
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Tribute
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Emotions
“When you work at street level you never know who's going to walk through your door.”
John Grisham
Unpredictability
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Work
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Clients
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Legal Profession
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Street-level Perspective
“There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.”
John Grisham
Legal Profession
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Humor
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Communication
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Professional Critique
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Brevity
“There are three types of words: words we all know, words we should know, and words nobody knows. Don't use the third category.”
John Grisham
Language
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Writing
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Communication
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Vocabulary
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Clarity
“In one long glorious acknowledgment of failure, he laid himself bare before God.”
John Grisham
Surrender
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Confession
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Spirituality
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Vulnerability
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Self-reflection
“We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.”
John Grisham
Crime
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Storytelling
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Journalism
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Inspiration
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Media
“The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people.”
John Grisham
Fiction
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Revenge
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Storytelling
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Creativity
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Expression
“We were invincible because we were eighteen and stupid.”
John Grisham
Youth
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Invincibility
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Naivety
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Coming-of-age
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Teenage Mindset
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