Most important, you learn never to trust a man, even if he seems honest and sincere. You learn how men deceive themselves and how impossible it is to help them without injuring yourself.
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 cau… - Jack 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 cau…
- Jack Abbott
This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release. - Jack Abbott
This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing. - Jack Abbott
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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
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.
My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent. - Jack Abbott
My eyes, my brain seek out escape routes wherever I am sent.
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… - Jack Abbott
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…
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 a… - Jack Abbott
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 a…
I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society. - Jack Abbott
I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society.
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life. - Jack Abbott
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
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