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Joe Orton

It (prison) affected my attitude towards society. Before, I had been vaguely conscious of something rotten somewhere, prison crystallized this. The old whore society really lifted up her skirts and the stench was pretty foul...I tried writing before I went into the nick ... but it was no good. Being in the nick brought detachment to my writing. I wasn't involved anymore. And suddenly it worked. [Interview with the Leicester Mercury, 1964]

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