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  1. John Grisham _ The Rainmaker

    Like a snake creeping through the undergrowth, I sneak into the law school well past noon and hours after both of my scheduled classes have broken up.
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  2. John Grisham _ The Rainmaker

    I can feel the competition here, very much like the first few weeks of law school when we were terribly concerned with each other's initial progress. I nod at a few acquaintances, silently hoping they flunk the exam because they're silently hoping I Collapse too. Such is the nature of the profession.
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  3. John Grisham _ The Rainmaker

    F. Franklin the Fourth has a job with a firm rich in heritage, money and pretentiousness, a firm vastly superior to Brodnax and Speer. His sidekicks at the moment are W. Harper Whittenson, an arrogant little snot who will, thankfully, leave Memphis and practice with a mega-firm in Dallas; J. Townsend Gross, who has accepted a position with another huge firm; and James Straybeck, a sometimes friendly sort who's suffered three years of law school without an initial to place before his name or numerals to stick after it. With such a short name, his future as a big-firm lawyer is in jeopardy. I doubt if he'll make it.
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  4. 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.
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  5. John Grisham _ The Rainmaker

    I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.
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  6. John Grisham _ The Rainmaker

    Anyone can cook a trout. The real art is in hooking the damned thing.
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  7. John Grisham _ The Rainmaker

    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.
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  8. John Grisham _ The Rainmaker

    There are few things in life worse than a long-winded lawyer.
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  9. 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.
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  10. John Grisham _ The Rainmaker

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

    life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done.
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  12. John Grisham _ The Rainmaker

    The coffee arrives, and we backslide into what lawyers do best---talking about other lawyers.
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