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Letter "J" » 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?»
Author: Jack Henry Abbott
«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.»
Author: Jack Henry Abbott
«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.»
Author: Jack Henry Abbott
«As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.»
Author: Jack Henry Abbott
«My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.»
Author: Jack Henry Abbott
«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.»
Author: Jack Henry Abbott
«That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.»
Author: Jack Henry Abbott
«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.»
Author: Jack Henry Abbott
«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.»
Author: Jack Henry Abbott
«Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.»
Author: Jack Henry Abbott
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