"The law is what I can get away with and stay out of jail."

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Source : Joe Gores (2009). “Spade & Archer: The Prequel to Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon”, p.103, Vintage

Joe Gores

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“If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.”
“All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one.”

Source : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”
“All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.”
“Patience is the best medicine.”

Source : First Frutes
“For Pakistan, Kashmir represents the infeasibility of secular nationalism and underscores the need for an Islamic theocracy in the subcontinent.”
“I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.”
“Sometimes I doubt and sometimes I believe. And I like not making myself believe when I am doubting, and not making myself doubt when I am believing. Surely neither God nor Accident need my consistency.”
“Exactly as we might ask God, and do ask God, to change our fate. The difference is that in the story the writer actually replies and in the end even changes his mind.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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