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“It is easy not to steal when one isn’t hungry.”
― Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
― Sentence: Ten Years and a Thousand Books in Prison
“I did everything I could to avoid problems, but I made mistakes and had to pay for them by summoning all my meager reserves of courage. If you ever ask yourself what you would do in such a position, I can assure you that you don’t really know until it happens. I’ve seen the toughest cats bitch up and run to the cops for help, and the clearly outclassed go into battle with no hope of winning but every intention of fighting for honor. I suppose I fell somewhere in the middle.”
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“After all, literature inevitably reveals truths about our sordid lives,”
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“Prison ultimately did make a good reader out of me, something I cannot imagine a modern American university education doing.”
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