Book: Rita Hayworth, or the Shawshank redemption

Time passed - perhaps the only irreplaceable, the only valuable thing in this world.

You can remember the old question that is usually asked to check whether you are optimist or pessimist. For Bayonne Hadley the answer would always be the same: the glass is half-empty. Forever and ever Amen. If you offer him a glass of the excellent orange juice, he'll say he dreamed about the vinegar. If you praise the loyalty of his wife, he will answer, which is not surprising: this ugly creature no one will be tempted.

... felt a sort of admiration for the human race - the feeling attending me is very rare and it is quite understandable when you look at something beautiful, really eye-catching, made with human hands. I think this distinguishes us from the animals...

Every choice comes down to one simple question: to be or not to be, to live or to exist.

Mr. Norton, in each case there was a quote from the Bible, and if you ever meet a person like him, my advice: bypass its tenth road.

Andy pulled his freedom like an invisible coat of the dusty closet, and tried again.

He brought five hundred dollars, but that son of a bitch managed to sneak through the prison gates much more than that. Perhaps self-esteem or confidence in his victory... or perhaps just the feeling of freedom never left him even in these godforsaken grey walls.

When a person take away the freedom and teach him to live in a cage, he loses the ability to think as before.

... it seems that the human brain is infinitely creative and has unlimited possibilities when it comes to entertainment.

About Andy already gossiped enough, but I don't like to listen to idle tales, not until you form an opinion about a person.

If he was all right, some information about himself, he gave the hour of a teaspoon. But if something is wrong, you will never be able to know. If Andy once and experienced a "dark night of the soul," as some writer or other, he never tells.

Events in human life are developing in three directions: the good, the bad and the ugly. And if you delve into darkness is terrible, it is increasingly difficult to make any distinction.

Is hope for the best... but prepare for the worst worth.

Instead of whining about his problems, he continued to live and tried to make his life as pleasant and interesting. Thousands of people around on this attitude to things not capable, and not only here, but outside the prison walls.