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Edward Bunker

Edward Bunker

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Birthday December 31, 1933

Death July 19, 2005

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Novelist, Screenwriter, Actor, Writer

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Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.

— Earl Copen (Willem Dafoe), Animal Factory

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It takes between one and two years for prison’s newness to wear off so its awful reality can creep in. Men who commit suicide either do it in the first geyser of shame, within days or weeks, or else after a couple of years, when all has been discovered hopeless. During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse mirror reflects the human form: everything is there, but distorted.

— Edward Bunker, The Animal Factory

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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

— Virginia Woolf, A Haunted House: The Complete Shorter Fiction

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I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's.

— John McCain, McCain's convention speech

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Everybody has a soulmate. But they're usually on the other side of the bars, or the wall, or the planet from you. That's the way the universe works.

— Galina 'Red' Reznikov (Kate Mulgrew), Orange Is the New Black, Season 3: Trust No Bitch

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The worst thing about prison was the dementors.

— Michael Scott (Steve Carell), The Office, Season 3: The Convict

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Prison is a process, a succession of imprisonments. At first it operates only on a physical level, restricting your movement. Later, it extends to the psychological plane, encompassing your very perception. You come to exclude all thoughts, all visions of the free world.

— Norman Parker, via www.goodreads.com

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I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long.

— Oscar Wilde, The Coming Nation

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I was given a cell occupied by five other men. It was infested with vermin, and sewer rates scurried back and further over the floors of that human cesspool in such numbers that it was almost impossible for me to place my feet on the stone floor. Those rats were nearly as big as cats, and vicious.

— Eugene V. Debs, Seeds Of Revolution

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In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

— Eldridge Cleaver, The New York Times Magazine

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In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

— Suge Knight, Suge Knight

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It taught me among other things the relativity of freedom. Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it’s absolute unfreedom.’

— Arthur Koestler, The Paris Review

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