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Jack Henry Abbott

"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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"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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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"There is so much hope in a little flower and so many flowers in a little hope!"

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"For those who wander in the depths, there is nothing deep!"

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"Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!"

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"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

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Amber Hurdle

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

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"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life."

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"People always make choices, always take sides!"

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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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"I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape."
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"Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
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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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"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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"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."
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"My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
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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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"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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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
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