Red：Well，I’ll be damned! Did I say you were good？Shit! You’re Rembrandt.
Andy：The funny thing is on the outside，I was an honest man. Straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.
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Red：What the hell’s going on？
Snooze：You tell me. One second he was fine，then out came the knife.
Red：Brooks，Brooks，we can talk about this right？
Brooks：Nothing left to talk about! It’s damn all talked out! I’m gonna kill him，cut his throat!
Red：Hey，wait，wait! What’s he done to you？
Brooks：It’s what they done! I got，I got no choice!
Andy：Brooks，you’re not gonna hurt Heywood，we all know that. Even Heywood knows it，right Heywood？
Heywood：Sure. I know that. Sure.
Andy：You know why you’re not gonna hurt him？Because he’s a friend of yours，because Brooks Hatlen is a reasonable man.
Red：That’s right. That’s right! Is that right，guys？
Andy：So put the knife down. Brooks，Brooks，look at me. Put the knife down! Brooks，look at his neck，for God’s sake. Look at his neck. He’s bleeding.
Brooks：But it’s the only way... the only way they’d let me stay.
Andy：This is crazy. Come on. You don’t wanna do this. Put it down. Look at me. Take it easy. You’ll be all right.
Heywood：Him？What about me？Crazy old fool! Goddamn near cut my throat!
Red：You’ve had it worse from shaving. What the hell did you do to set him off anyway？
Heywood：I didn’t do nothin’! Just came in to say fare-thee-well. Ain’t you heard？His parole came through!
Andy：I just don’t understand what happened in there，that’s all.
Heywood：Old man’s crazy as a rat in a tin shithouse，is what.
Red：Heywood，that’s enough out of you.
Con：I heard he had you shitting your pants.
Heywood：Fuck you!
Red：You do knock it off! Brooks ain’t no bug. He’s just... he’s just institutionalized.
Heywood：Institutionalized，my ass.
Red：The man’s been in here fifty years. Heywood，fifty years! This is all he knows. In here，he’s an important man. He’s an educated man. Outside，he’s nothing but a used-up con with arthritis in both hands. Probably couldn’t get a library card if he tried. You know what I’m trying to say？
Floyd：Red，I do believe you’re talking out of your ass’.
Red：You believe whatever you want，Floyd. But I’m telling you these walls are funny. First you hate ’em，then you get used to’em.
Enough time passes，you get so you depend on ’em. That’s“institutionalized”.
Jigger：Shit. I could never get like that.
Ernie：Oh，yeah？Say that when you’ve been here as long as Brooks has.
Red：Goddamn right. They send you here for life，and that’s exactly what they take. Part that counts，anyway.
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Andy：My wife used to say I’m a hard man to know. Like a closed book. Complained about it all the time. She’s beautiful. God，I loved her. But 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.
Red：That doesn’t make you a murderer. Bad husband，maybe. Felt bad about it if you want to. But you didn’t pull the trigger.
Andy：No. I didn’t. Somebody else did，and I wound up in here. Bad luck，I guess.
Red：Yeah.
Andy：It floats around. Has to land on somebody. It was my turn，that’s all. I was in the path of the tornado’. I didn’t expect the storm would last as long as it has. You think you’ll ever get out of here？
Red：Me？Yeah. One day when I got a long，white beard and two or three marbles rolling around upstairs. They’ll let me out.
Andy：Tell you where I’d go. Zihuatanejo.
Red：Zihua... ？
Andy：Zihuatanejo. It’s in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific？They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel right on the beach. Buy some worthless old boat and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing.
Red：Zihuatanejo？
Andy：In a place like that，I could use a man that knows how to get things.
Red：I don’t think I could make it on the outside，Andy. I’ve been in here most of my life. I’m an institutional man now. Just like Brooks was.
Andy：Well，you underestimate yourself.
Red：I don’t think so. In here I’m the guy who can get things for you，sure，but outside all you need is the Yellow Pages. Hell，I wouldn’t even know where to begin. Pacific Ocean？Shit! About to scare me to death，somethin’that big.
Andy：Not me. I didn’t shoot my wife and I didn’t shoot her lover，and whatever mistakes I made I’ve paid for them and then some. That hotel，that boat... I don’t think that’s too much to ask.
Red：I don’t think you ought’o be doing this to yourself，Andy! This is shitty pipe dreams! I mean Mexico’s in the way the hell down there，and you’re in here，and that’s the way it is!
Andy：Yeah，right. That’s the way it is. It’s down there，and I’m in here. I guess it comes down to a simple choice，really. Get busy living... or get busy dying.
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