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

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott

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

I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.

Quote by Kim Basinger about actors, day, affair, being, time

One of my favorite actors is Jack Lemmon. I would love to have a career like that.

Quote by Josh Duhamel about actors, career, love

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Quote by Jack Nicholson about sex, irony, mother

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Quote by Camille Paglia about woman

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about research

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Quote by Jack London about advice, inspiration, contentment

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Quote by Jack London about opinion, nature

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Quote by Jack London about opinion, charity, contentment

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Quote by Jack London about life, good, good luck

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Quote by Jack London about opinion, atoms

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about people, dream, human imperfections

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about confusion, nothing

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about people, life, hope, death, man

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Quote by Jack Kerouac about opinion, failure

You are killing yourself little by little every day trying to prostitute the beauty.

Quote by Jack London about beauty, day, contentment

Give me my golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep my golf clubs and the fresh air.

Quote by Jack Benny about comedy, air, contentment