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Jack Henry Abbott

"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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"I believe in unconditional love... I believe in dangerous unselfishness... I believe in daring to achieve... I believe in making mistakes... I believe in helping others... I believe in moving on... I believe in passionate romance... I believe in living the fullness of this human experience... I believe in ME..."

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Amber Hurdle

"My heart gladdens, knowing someone think of at Christmas."

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Amber Hurdle

"We all have human emotions that rob our lives."

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"Sadness comes from expectations. To be happy, adapt to everything and expect nothing."

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"There are not many things that are more powerful than love."

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Amber Hurdle

"Smile because it's infectious.Love because it's contagious."

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"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."

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"I am grateful to those who have betrayed me. They thought they were just stabbing me in the back, but they were also cutting me free from their poisonous life."

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Amber Hurdle

"Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence."

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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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"Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause."
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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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"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."
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"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
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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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"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
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"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."
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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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"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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