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Jack Henry Abbott
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born
January 21, 1944
in Oscoda, Michigan, The United States
died
February 10, 2002
gender
male
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In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
by Jack Henry Abbott, Norman Mailer    3.60 avg rating — 330 ratings
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published
1981
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4 editions
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In the belly of the beast: letters from prison
 3.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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published
1982
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My Return
3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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published
1987
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“The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity.”
― Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
― Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
“I would never say, to justify a lapse in principle, "I am only human"--as though that were some kind of justification for weakness, moral weakness. Flesh and blood is much, much stronger than fools believe.”
― Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
― Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
“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, In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
― Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison
