"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop."

-- Adlai E. Stevenson

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“It’s not great when your husband thinks the only guy who can talk to you, is some other guy.”

Source : Jonas Eriksson (2013). “Everyday Psychopaths”, p.36, JONASWRITES
“I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.”
“There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.”
“And now I was seeing that there was something really cool about that family. All of them. They were just...real. And who were we? There was something spinning wickedly out of control inside this house. It was like seeing inside the Baker's world had opened up windows into our own, and the view was not a pretty one. Where had all this stuff come from? And why hadn't I ever seen it before.”
“I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.”
“Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene ... to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country.”
“Eleanor hadn't written him a letter. It was a postcard. GREETINGS FROM THE LAND OF 10,000 LAKES it said on the front. Park turned it over and recognized her scratchy handwriting. It filled his head with song lyrics. He sat up. He smiled. Something heavy and winged took off from his chest. Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard. Just three words long.”
“We blasted holes in the night until she bled sunshine”

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