“Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.”
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Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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There was never sufficient evidence presented at my trial to support a finding of intent to kill.
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To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.
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