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"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
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"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."
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"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
Forgiveness
"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
"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
Escape
"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
"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
Nothing
"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
"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
"That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life."
Life
"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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"He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street."
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"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."
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"Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls."
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"Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here." " You think I want to be in the girls' restroom?" " I mean the ship, Percy! We have to get off the ship." " Smells bad," Tyson agreed. " And dogs eat all the eggs. Annabeth is right. We must leave the restroom and the ship."
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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."
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"Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment."
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"The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide."
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"Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself."
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"I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed."
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"Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?"
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