Jack Henry Abbott Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
 
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Suggest Revision: When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.
 
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Suggest Revision: When 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: Imagine 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
 
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Suggest Revision: Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
 
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Suggest Revision: One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
 
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