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Scott Turow quotes

American Novelist April 12, 1949

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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
Scott Turow quote: "On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost..."
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare. Scott Turow
Scott Turow quote: "Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love."
Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love. Scott Turow
The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of evreyone, and withich, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves. Scott Turow
Scott Turow quote: "If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there..."
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction. Scott Turow
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
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
Scott Turow quote: "Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned,..."
Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on. Scott Turow
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
Scott Turow quote: "I tend to write in the mornings."
I tend to write in the mornings. Scott Turow
The fundamental tension of the profession is the struggle between bold advocacy of the client's interests and the need to establish and hold to limits that prevent advocacy from leading to irrational and inequitable results; and thus the lawyer's job in practice is to be on one hand the impassioned representative of his client to the world, and on the other the wise representative to his client of the legal system, and the society, explaining and upholding the demands and restrictions which... Scott Turow
Every American is from somewhere else. Each is hated for what he brings that is different from the rest. We live in uneasy peace. But it is peace, for the most part. Scott Turow
Scott Turow quote: "The great break of my literary career was going to law school."
The great break of my literary career was going to law school. Scott Turow
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
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

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