I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.
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I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.
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Andy Dufresne - the only man who crawled through a river of shit and came out clean on the other side.
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You either gotta get busy living, or get busy dying.
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Remember, Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.
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The world went and got itself into a godamn hurry!
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Hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.
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Fear can hold you prisioner, hope can set you free
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