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Jack Henry Abbott quotes

American Author January 21, 1944 – February 10, 2002

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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
Jack Henry Abbott quote: "That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every..."
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. Jack Henry Abbott
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. Jack Henry Abbott
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. Jack Henry Abbott
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 relationship among ourselves. Jack Henry Abbott
Jack Henry Abbott quote: "One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological..."
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. Jack Henry Abbott
The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity. Jack Henry Abbott
Jack Henry Abbott quote: "I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six..."
I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. Jack Henry Abbott
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 weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe. Jack Henry Abbott
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. Jack Henry Abbott
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. Jack Henry Abbott
Jack Henry Abbott quote: "I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror."
I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. Jack Henry Abbott
Jack Henry Abbott quote: "My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent."
My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent. Jack Henry Abbott
Jack Henry Abbott quote: "Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice."
Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice. Jack Henry Abbott
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. Jack Henry Abbott

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