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Jack Henry Abbott quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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 quotes: Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.

Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.

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

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: The wasteland that is your memory now comes under the absolute dictatorship of idols too terrible to mention.

The wasteland that is your memory now comes under the absolute dictatorship of idols too terrible to mention.

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.

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

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

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

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: 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 quotes: I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.

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

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: It is funny that some of must not only get our bearings but must also know all the details of the world before we venture out into it.

It is funny that some of must not only get our bearings but must also know all the details of the world before we venture out into it.

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: To illustrate: to walk ten miles in an enclosed space of ten feet is not really movement. There are not ten miles of space, only time.

To illustrate: to walk ten miles in an enclosed space of ten feet is not really movement. There are not ten miles of space, only time.

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: 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.

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

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

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: Indeed, it is almost a rule that the more simple and commonplace something is, the more difficult it is to understand it.

Indeed, it is almost a rule that the more simple and commonplace something is, the more difficult it is to understand it.

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.

I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

Jack Henry Abbott quotes: 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 quotes: I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.