I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Read more Andy Dufresne QuotesFrom: The Shawshank Redemption
His first night in the joint, Andy Dufresne cost me two packs of cigarettes. He never made a sound.
Same old shit, different dayAndy Dufresne: What about you? What are you in here for?Red: Murder, same as you.Andy Dufresne: Innocent?Red: Only guilty man in Shawshank.
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.