"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."

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Source : Jack Henry Abbott (1982). “In the belly of the beast: letters from prison”, Vintage

Jack Abbott

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“I think that crowdfunding has become such a powerful tool to tell stories that might not find financing otherwise - like a dark comedy about infidelity, for example!”
“Listen soberly: Just be 'I Am'; just stay here! ... There's nothing that can stop you from following this simple advice.”
“You're not going to get off the couch and be at some amazing fast pace or burn crazy amounts of calories, but you have to start somewhere Eventually, you'll get there.”

Source : "Jennie Finch on motherhood, marathons and being 'a machine'". Interview With Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. March 9, 2012.
“I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.”
“...'Goose girl, may I kiss you?' She answered by... kissing him first.”
“But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.”
“You are more likely to learn something by finding surprises in your own behavior than by hearing surprising facts about people in general.”
“Every attempt, by whatever authority, to fix a maximum of productive labor by a given worker in a given time is an unjust restriction upon his freedom and a limitation of his right to make the most of himself in order that he may rise in the scale of the social and economic order in which he lives. The notion that all human beings born into this world enter at birth into a definite social and economic classification, in which classification they must remain permanently through life, is wholly false and fatal to a progressive civilization.”

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