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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  1. Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.
  2. 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.
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