But airport security is meant mostly to impress honest citizens and insurance companies, and secondarily to catch hijackers and other crazies. There is no security against a man with his own truck and his own clipboard, and Inter-Air
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“The thief’s underworld, which is different from that of the mafiosi, gang bangers, and racketeers, has many adages and observations. If you can’t do the time don’t mess with crime is the best-known. Another is: A thief’s nerve is in direct proportion to his financial condition. Or: Hard times make hard people.”
― Education of a Felon: A Memoir
― Education of a Felon: A Memoir
“Convicts on the main line sent me books from the library. I’ve always been able to make it if I could read.”
― Education of a Felon: A Memoir
― Education of a Felon: A Memoir
“The story of New York is speed, is movement, movement without stopping, on the go all the time, gotta hustle,”
― Dancing Aztecs
― Dancing Aztecs
“Reading taught me that prison had been the crucible that had formed several great writers. Cervantes wrote much of Don Quixote in a prison cell, and Dostoyevski was a mediocre writer until he was sentenced to death, commuted within a few hours of execution, and then sent to prison in Siberia.”
― Education of a Felon: A Memoir
― Education of a Felon: A Memoir
“Remember, a fight isn’t just about surviving, it’s about prevailing. There’s a difference.”
― True Believer
― True Believer
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