Quotes by Jack Henry Abbott - Page 1

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.
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Painful
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My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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Routes
Escape
Seek
Sent
Wherever
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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Malice
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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Free World
One Time
Six
Weeks
Escaped
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Ghost
Dead
Civil
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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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Exactly
Exactly What
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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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Forgotten
Psychological
Shock
One Morning
Woke
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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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Desperate
Routine
Escape
So Many Years
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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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Evidence
Sufficient
Support
Finding
Intent
Presented
Sufficient Evidence
Trial
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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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Prison
Inside
Life Me Day
Hurts
Every Day
Further
Takes
Tearing
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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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Circumstances
Refrain
Attack
Forced
Prisoners
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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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Subjective
Undone
Wander
Approximate
Dead
Ghosts
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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.
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Illness
Paranoia
Sentences
Contracted
Effect
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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.
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Long Term
Might
Pressure
Sensations
Wanted
Atmospheric
Convey
Seriously
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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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Dragged
Escape
Guards
Straight Line
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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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Deep Inside
Helpless
Infant
Innocent
Permit
Weak
Inside
Insect
Suffer
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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.
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Feels
Horrible
Nightmare
Objects
World Mind Me
Actual
Emotions
Experiences
Mind World Me
Passions
Sees
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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.
Jack Henry Abbott /
Anger
Paranoia
Thousand
Life Daily Moment
Consume
Daily
Grasp
Hour
Minute
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