The Brinktown jail is one of the most ingenious ever propounded by civic authorities. It must be remembered that Brinktown occupies the surface of a volcanic butte, overlooking a trackless jungle of quagmire, thorn, eel-vine skiver tussock. A single road leads from city down to jungle; the prisoner is merely locked out of the city. Escape is at his option; he may flee as far through the jungle as he sees fit: the entire continent is at his disposal. But no prisoner ever ventures far from the gate; and, when his presence is required, it is only necessary to unlock the gate and call his name. Jack Vance
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.
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Groucho Marx
Power does not pardon, power punishes.
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Amit Kalantri
To be sentenced to jail because of your faith in God is to let you know the degree of darkness in that particular society
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Sunday Adelaja
I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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Quentin Tarantino
I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.
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Tommy Lee
More Quotes By Jack Vance
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for...
Good music always defeats bad luck.
I understand the gist of your speculation, ' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.
I am not Cugel the Clever for nothing!
One becomes sated with platitudes no less than honey, so that one often breaks another's bones in one's vexation.
