American - Author | January 21, 1944 - February 10, 2002
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
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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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 escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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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.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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