The Bonfire of the Vanities Page #18

1650

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enlists the perjurers?

1651

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When a district attorney...

1652

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throws a man to the mob...

1653

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for political gain?

1654

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When men of the cloth...

1655

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men of God...

1656

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take the prime cuts?

1657

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Is that justice?

1658

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I don't hear you.

1659

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I'll tell you what justice is.

1660

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Justice...

1661

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is the law.

1662

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And the law...

1663

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is man's feeble attempt...

1664

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to set down the principles of decency.

1665

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Decency.

1666

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And decency is not a deal!

1667

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It isn't an angle, or a contract or a hustle.

1668

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Decency...

1669

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Decency is what

your grandmother taught you.

1670

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It's in your bones.

1671

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Now you go home.

1672

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Go home and be decent people.

1673

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Be decent.

1674

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Mr. McCoy, you're free to go.

1675

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I don't f***ing believe this.

1676

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Sh*t!

1677

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So we come to the end

of our story.

1678

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That was the last I saw of Sherman McCoy.

1679

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The last anyone saw of him.

1680

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He was gone...

1681

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in a blaze of glory. A hero for our times.

1682

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Or as close to a hero

as we're likely to get these days.

1683

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And now, without further ado,

the man of the moment.

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The winner of the Pulitzer Prize...

1685

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the National Book Award

and every other prize you can win.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Peter Fallow.

1687

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Sherman, who started with

so much, lost everything.

1688

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But he gained his soul.

1689

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Whereas I, who started with so little...

1690

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gained everything.

1691

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"But what does it profit a man

if he gains the world and loses..."

1692

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Ah, well.

1693

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There are compensations.

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