"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."

Cause, Effect, Illness, Paranoia

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Cause, Causes, Effect

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

Cause, Disaster, Effect, Weakness

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Cause, Man

"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."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Cause, Wisdom, Truth, Life, Power

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

Cause, Will

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Cause, Justification, Reason

"I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes."

Claudia Christian, American Actress

Cause, Causes, Will

"There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Cause, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Life

"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."

William C. Bryant, American Poet

Cause, State

"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."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Cause, Fire, Pain

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"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."

Support

"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."

Circumstance

"The 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."

Past

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

Memory

"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

"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."

Life

"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."

Now

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

"I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."

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

"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."

"In a just cause the weak will beat the strong."

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

"I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes."

"There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things."

"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."

"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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"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."

"When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack."

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

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

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

"The 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."

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

"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."

"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."

"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."