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

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

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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."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

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"Don't judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do."

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"Outside, across the putrid moat and under the dark mute trees, I would often lie and dream for hours about what I read in the books; and would longingly picture myself amidst gay crowds in the sunny world beyond the endless forests."

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"To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking."

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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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"I recognized it instantly. It was a made-up story, a fantasy, the tale of four kids who went through a magic wardrobe and found themselves in a strange new world. I'd read it more times than I could remember, and although I sneered at the thought of a magical land with friendly, talking animals, there were times when I wished, in my most secret moments, that I could find a hidden door that would take us allout of this place."

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"I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."

George Orwell, British Author

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"To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape."

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"No one loves us here, let's go to Mars."

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Explore more quotes by 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

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

Support

"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

"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."

Anger

"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."

Emotional

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

Memory

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

Forgiveness

"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

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

Nothing