23 ordspråk av Jack Henry Abbott

Jack Henry Abbott

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How would you like to be forced all the days of your life to sit beside a stinking, stupid wino every morning at breakfast?

So we can all hold up like good soldiers and harden ourselves in prison. But if you do that for too long, you lose yourself.

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.

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

My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.

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.

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

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.

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.

Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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