Quote by Evelyn Waugh
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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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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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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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It isnt true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. – Mario Vargas Llosa

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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self. – Cyril Connolly

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