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Anyone who has been to an English public school will always feel comparatively at home in prison. It is the people brought up in the gay intimacy of the slums who find prison so soul-destroying. – Evelyn Waugh

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One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric. – Evelyn Waugh

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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

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We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death. – John Donne

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The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. – Henry Miller

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Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. – Horace Mann

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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesnt know where to die. – Antonio Gramsci

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