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 Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine and a half months. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
How would you like to be forced all the days of your life to sit beside a stinking, stupid wino every morning at breakfast - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The only serious crime I have ever committed in free society was bank robbery during the time I was a fugitive. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. - Jack Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Abbott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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