Quotes From "In The Belly Of The Beast: Letters From Prison" By Norman Mailer

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We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it. Norman Mailer
2
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
3
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
4
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