Quote from The Shawshank Redemption (Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding)

I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding in The Shawshank Redemption

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You're gonna look real funny sucking my dick with no teeth.

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I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.

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Freedom

Uncle Sam. Reaching into your shirt and squeezing your tit till it's purple.

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Red: "No."
Andy Dufresne: "They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory."

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Son, six wardens have been through here in my tenure, and I've learned one immutable, universal truth: Not one of them born whose a-shole wouldn't pucker up tighter than a snare drum when you ask them for funds.

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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

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Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

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A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

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It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

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Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

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New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation.

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Time is a face on the water

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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

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The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

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Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.

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