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Jack Henry Abbott

"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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"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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Jack Henry Abbott
"There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill."

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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
"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."

Innocence

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

Escape

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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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Jack Henry Abbott
"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing."

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Jack Henry Abbott
"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."

Imprisonment

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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."

Life

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Jack Henry Abbott
"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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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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Aberjhani

"If I still need someone to calm my anger down,then I surely need a scapegoat who enrages me."

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Aberjhani

"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

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Aberjhani

"Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others."

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Aberjhani

"If you cannot stop yourself from getting angry, then at least get angry about things that matters."

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Aberjhani

"We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop."

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Aberjhani

"The whole world dislikes kashays (inner weakness of anger-pride-deceit-greed) and yet, all the kashays of the world are done willfully. One doesn't like to be angry and yet he claims anger is necessary."

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Aberjhani

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

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Aberjhani

"Getting angry means setting fire to your own wealth."

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Aberjhani

"Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!"

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Aberjhani

"Anger is a ghost.Human is the host."

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