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

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“I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.”

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

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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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“Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our…

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

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“I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"--as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral…

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“The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into…

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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…

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“Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.”

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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

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Everything has got a place in my house. If something is moved I get a panic attack.

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