“I am a lawyer and I am in prison.” — The Racketeer by John Grisham
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“Justice? — You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.” — William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own
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“Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.” — Ha Jin, Waiting
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
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“It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.” — Paul Auster, City of Glass
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“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.” — The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis
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“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” — L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between
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