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Jack Henry Abbott

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

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Donna Grant

"We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and exhaling like an epileptic pilot who'd just landed a cargo plane full of dynamite."

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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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"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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"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."

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"Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!"

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Donna Grant

"Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome."

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Donna Grant

"Escapers were the cream of the crop."

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"I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland."

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