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Jack Henry Abbott

"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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"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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"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best."

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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."

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"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."

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"The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?"

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"You think that it's not magic that keeps you alive? Just 'cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn't make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all."

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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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"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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"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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"To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there."
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"I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks."
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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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"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."
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