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Jack Henry Abbott Quotes

«How would you like to be forced all the days of your life to sit beside a stinking, stupid wino every morning at breakfast?»
«So we can all hold up like good soldiers and harden ourselves in prison. But if you do that for too long, you lose yourself.»
«I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.»
«As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.»
«My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.»
«Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.»
«That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.»
«Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.»
«I've wanted somehow to convey to you the sensations - the atmospheric pressure, you might say - of what it is to be seriously a long-term prisoner in an American prison.»
«Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.»

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