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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

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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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The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.

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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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The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.

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I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

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When I'm forced by circumstances to be in a crowd of prisoners, it's all I can do to refrain from attack.

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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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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.

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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 21st, 1944

Died: February 10th, 2002

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