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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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Akiroq Brost

"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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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."

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Akiroq Brost

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

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Akiroq Brost

"The vote, cast in a free atmosphere and with all inclinations and parties at present, was after all a vote to the Islamic Republic, to national independence, to the Constitution and to the Islamic causes."

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Akiroq Brost

"When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise."

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"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."

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"Some situations you cause yourself."

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Akiroq Brost

"No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland."

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"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause."

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"Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline."

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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."

Imprisonment

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

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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."

Life

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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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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
"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
"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."

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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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