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823'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.' John Abbott- 0 0 •
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906When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. Jack Henry Abbott
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870When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. Jack Henry Abbott
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864To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. Jack Henry Abbott
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975There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. Jack Henry Abbott
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836The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott
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760Paranoia 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. Jack Henry Abbott
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711One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. Jack Henry Abbott
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729I'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. Jack Henry Abbott
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672The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. Jack Henry Abbott
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669That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. Jack Henry Abbott
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703Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. Jack Henry Abbott
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778I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. Jack Henry Abbott
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782Because 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. Jack Henry Abbott
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