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"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself."

"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid."
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"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."
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