"But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this."

-- Ernest Gaines

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“The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything.”
“There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.”
“Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.”
“I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility.”
“We have to be willing to do whatever it takes to win.”
“If you can't stand the heat in the dressing-room, get out of the kitchen”
“Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning.”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1984
“If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.”

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