5 Quotes & Sayings By Jack Henry Abbott

Jack Henry Abbott is an author, blogger, and long-time FBI profiler. He is the author of over 25 books, including the best-selling True Crime novels The Tattooed Man and The Year Without a Santa Claus. He has written three New York Times bestsellers: The Tattooed Man; The Stranger Beside Me; and The Devil's Notebook. His book, God's Terrorists: The Tale of a Serial Killer directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Robert De Niro and Anne Heche won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature Film in 2001.

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Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt. Jack Henry Abbott
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Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves. Jack Henry Abbott
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I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf. Jack Henry Abbott
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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 anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control. Jack Henry Abbott