It was crime at its purest, in which empathy, that most fundamental aspect of human morality, evaporated and another being became only a target for untamed fantasy.
Scott TurowTags: crime
As a defense lawyer, he refused to condemn his clients. Everyone else in the system--the cops, the prosecutors, the juries and judges--would take care of that; they didn't need his help.
Scott TurowTags: lawyering
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 TurowTags: psychology
I am a law student in my first year at the law, and there are many moments when I am simply a mess.
Scott TurowThe 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 TurowEvery 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 TurowThus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome.
Scott TurowWho are we but the stories we tell ourselves, about ourselves, and believe?
Scott TurowTags: identity
It was something like stirring concrete with my eyelashes.
Scott TurowThe 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.
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