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1. "Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love." ~ Scott Turow
2. "After a week, it's better. I miss her. I mourn her. But some peace has returned. She had been so unattainable - so young, so much a citizen of a different era - that it is hard to feel fully deprived." ~ Scott Turow
3. "It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy." ~ Scott Turow
4. "People talk of me as being the inventor of the legal thriller." ~ Scott Turow
5. "Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry." ~ Scott Turow
6. "On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare." ~ Scott Turow
7. "If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction." ~ Scott Turow
8. "The great break of my literary career was going to law school." ~ Scott Turow
9. "I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning." ~ Scott Turow
10. "For thousands and thousands of American kids, libraries are the only safe place they can find to study, a haven free from the dangers of street or the numbing temptations of television. As schools cut back services, the library looms even more important to countless children." ~ Scott Turow
11. "If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease." ~ Scott Turow
12. "The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots." ~ Scott Turow
13. "I tend to write in the mornings." ~ Scott Turow
14. "Postmodernism cost literature its audience." ~ Scott Turow
15. "The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author." ~ Scott Turow
16. "The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity." ~ Scott Turow
17. "Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining." ~ Scott Turow
18. "Anna is part of a generation that often seems frozen in place by their unreleting sense of irony. Virtually everything people believe in can be exposed as possessing laughable inconsistencies. And so they laugh. And stand still." ~ Scott Turow
19. "It was something like stirring concrete with my eyelashes." ~ Scott Turow
20. "German," ~ Scott Turow
21. "He had people to love, who, best of all, loved him, too. He didn't feel it made sense to waste the energy on relationships that would only pull him under some emotional waterfall in which he'd never catch his breath." ~ Scott Turow
22. "Who are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?" ~ Scott Turow
23. "I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess." ~ Scott Turow
24. "The years roll on and life seems like this more and more, that choices don't really exit in the way I thought they would when I was a child and expected the regal power of adulthood to provide clarity and insight." ~ Scott Turow
25. "This is life. You know the philosphers? The Present never stops. There's only the Present. You cheat life if you live in the Past." ~ Scott Turow
26. "The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool." ~ Scott Turow
27. "Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on." ~ Scott Turow
28. "He smiled hesitantly and she smiled back in the same fashion, but he was unsettled by the thought that Muriel had undergone a transformation. Some of the stuff that had come out of her mouth lately, about God or babies, made him wonder if she'd had a brain transplant at some point in the last ten years. It was funny what happened to people after forty, when they realized that our place here on earth was leased, not owned." ~ Scott Turow
29. "As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system--the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges--would take care of that; they didn't need his help." ~ Scott Turow
30. "Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome." ~ Scott Turow
31. "What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior." ~ Scott Turow

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