Quotation

You’re nothing but trouble. You’re ignorant and uneducated and willful. You’re everything you disdain in others. You never fail to distinguish yourself. I thought I had met every kind of man. I didn’t realize how vain I was. Stop crying. I know you, Maggie. You could lie the paint off a battleship. The desk clerk downstairs works for Beckman. So do some of the police officials. There is hardly anything in this city that Beckman doesn’t control. He also owns United States senators and congressmen and state attorneys and the wardens of penitentiaries. What value was life if you surrendered your beliefs in order to sustain it> Make your choice, Holland, he told himself. Take the easy way, then see how you like living with it. He who dies this year is quit for the next, he thought.