"This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release."

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

Jack Abbott

#World Quotes #Illusion Quotes #Release Quotes

“I'm proud to represent the average woman.”
“I got a nice nine-month vacation living on the beach collecting sand dollars, and I really got to reflect and realize that in entertainment, you can definitely go too far.”
“No one should ever be ashamed of going to meetings. It's healthy, it's therapeutic and it's the right way to live.”
“We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?”

Source : "Phylicia Rashad Talks Good Deeds and Occupy Wall Street". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.
“If I had kids, my kids would hate me ... They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something in my life would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.”
“Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.”
“there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.”

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