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"One day, I was reading a psychology book and a word jumped out at me. “Sociopath.” It called to me. I read it over and over. “Sociopath. The essential characteristic of this disorder is a lack of remorse, even for violent or criminal behavior. The sociopath lacks the fundamental quality of empathy.”
I ran to the battered old dictionary I kept in my cell. “Empathy: the intellectual identification with or vicarious experiencing of the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another.” I puzzled it out. A sociopath thinks only his own thoughts, walks his own road. Feels only his own pain. Yeah. Wasn’t that the right way to live in this junkyard?
Do your own time, keep your face flat.
Don’t let them see your heart."[Andrew Vachss, Blue Belle]
