Jack Abbott Quotes

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• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
• As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
• I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.
• This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.
• Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible…
• 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…
• Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we…
• 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,…
• That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
• My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
• 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…
• I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
• 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…

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