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

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

Jack Abbott

#Eye Quotes #Umpires Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.”
“Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles.”
“God, the supreme being, is neither circumscribed by space, nor touched by time; he cannot be found in a particular direction, and his essence cannot change. The secret conversation is thus entirely spiritual; it is a direct encounter between God and the soul, abstracted from all material constraints.”
“Being a geek is extremely liberating”
“No one will ever win four [Super Bowls] in six years again. It won't happen. You can chisel that sucker in stone.”
“There's no doubt about it; playing football and how tough it is on the body afterwards.”
“[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.”
“Education should aim at destroying free will so that after pupils are thus schooled they will be incapable throughout the rest of their lives of thinking or acting otherwise than as their school masters would have wished”

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