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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."

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"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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Donna Grant

"They never fail who die in a great cause."

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Donna Grant

"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

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Donna Grant

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

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Donna Grant

"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

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Donna Grant

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

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Donna Grant

"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

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Donna Grant

"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."

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Donna Grant

"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."

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Donna Grant

"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."

Nothing

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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."

Innocence

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Jack Henry Abbott
"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."

Memory

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Jack Henry Abbott
"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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Jack Henry Abbott
"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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Jack Henry Abbott
"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."

Forgiveness

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Jack Henry Abbott
"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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Jack Henry Abbott
"The 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."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"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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Jack Henry Abbott
"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."

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