Jack Henry Abbott
Author
1944-01-21
Books by Jack Henry Abbott
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In the belly of the beast
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My return
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Quotes by Jack Henry Abbott
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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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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to 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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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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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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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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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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