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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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"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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"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."
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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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"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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