"I feel that if I ever did adjust to prison, I could by that alone never adjust to society."

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

Jack Abbott

#Prison Quotes #Feels Quotes

“It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.”
“I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.”

Source : "A year in the eye of the storm". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2011.
“A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.54, Cambridge University Press
“If my own experience had taught me anything, it was that, if a thing had to be done, it could be done.”

Source : Gertrude Lawrence (1945). “A Star Danced”
“Surely the fact that a uniformed police officer is wearing his hair below his collar will make him no less identifiable as a policeman.”
“There are great characters on television.”
“A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale, but two years ago if you would've told me I'd be in this position, I wouldn't believe it hardly.”
“Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.”

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