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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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"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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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
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"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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"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."
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"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
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"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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"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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"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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"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."
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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."
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