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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.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 142 | Rank: 0 | Fav

When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 146 | Rank: 0 | Fav

To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 168 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 169 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 171 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 173 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The only serious crime I have ever committed in free society was bank robbery during the time I was a fugitive.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 147 | Rank: 0 | Fav

That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 153 | Rank: 0 | Fav

So we can all hold up like good soldiers and harden ourselves in prison. But if you do that for too long, you lose yourself.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 171 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 148 | Rank: 0 | Fav

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 174 | Rank: 0 | Fav

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 165 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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...

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 162 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 153 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 159 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 156 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 154 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 172 | Rank: 0 | Fav

How would you like to be forced all the days of your life to sit beside a stinking, stupid wino every morning at breakfast?

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 161 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Jack Henry Abbott (1944 - 2002) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 177 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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