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

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about world, time

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

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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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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.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about prison, americans, contentment

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.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about anger, moment, day, life, contentment

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

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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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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.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about prison, school, reason

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.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about prison, good, good luck, contentment

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

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about prison, day, life

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

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about bankers, crime, criminals, society, time

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.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about prison, past, respect

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.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about nightmare, emotions, objects, mind, world

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

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

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about prison, contentment

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

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about prison, attack, circumstances

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.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about wanderer, night, experience, life, things

Well, Alec and I are looking for a farm, because I have a cow named Henry.

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Whereas Schaeffer and Henry were working like samplers, their idea was to capture those sounds which couldn't be serially calibrated because they were too complex in character.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about character, idea

After we finished his scene, Dad wrote me a letter saying that in his 41 years of making motion pictures, he had never seen a crew so devoted to their director, nor a director so devoted to his crew.

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