Every man has his breaking point.
Oh, Andy loved geology. I imagine it appealed to his meticulous nature. An Ice Age here, a million years of mountain-building there. Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really. Pressure and time.
But I tell you these walls are funny. First you hate them. Then you get used to them. Enough time passes... you get so you depend on them.
In prison a man will do most anything to keep his mind occupied.
Andy Dufresne, who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.
I can't believe how fast things move on the outside. I saw an automobile once when I was a kid... but now they're everywhere. The world went and got itself
in a big damn hurry.
We sat and drank with the sun on our shoulders, and felt like free men.
You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory.
My wife used to say I'm a hard man to know. Like a closed book. Complained about it all the time. She was beautiful. God, I loved her. I just didn't know how to show it, that's all. I killed her, Red. I didn't pull the trigger. But I drove her away. That's why she died, because of me. The way I am.
Lord, it's a miracle! Man vanished like a fart in the wind.
I believe in two things: Discipline and the Bible. Here, you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord. Your ass belongs to me.
In 1966, Andy Dufresne escaped from Shawshank Prison. All they found of him was a muddy set of prison clothes, a bar of soup and an old rock hammer damn near worn down to the nub. I remember thinking it would take a man 600 years to tunnel through the wall with it. Old Andy did it in less than 20.
Step aside, Mert. This fucker's having himself an accident.
Rumor has it you're a real cold fish. You think your shit smells sweeter than most. Is that right?
They send you here for life. That's exactly what they take.
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