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Prison Quotes


"I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison."


"Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible."


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


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


"Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger."


"They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping."


"The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for."
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