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21 " When you spend your life taking care of mudmen, you can't help getting a little dirty yourself. "
― Stephen King , The Green Mile
22 " I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with to tell me where we's going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world...every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head...all the time. Can you understand? ... "
23 " A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures... "
24 " Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. "
25 " A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean. "
26 " I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it. "
27 " He killed them with their love "
28 " Weird love's better than no love at all. "
29 " Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation. "
30 " It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family. "
31 " Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire. "
32 " On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job? "
33 " I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous. "
34 " We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long "
35 " But people love a hypocrite, you know——they recognize one of their own, and it always feels so good when someone gets caught with his pants down and his dick up and it isn't you. "
36 " I done a few things in my life that I'm not proud of, but this is the first time I ever felt really actually in danger of hell. "
37 " A banty-rooster sort of guy, the kind that likes to pick fights, especially when the odds are all their way. "
38 " Just don't expect to get what you want unless we decide its what you need - this isn't a hotel. "
39 " The first morning passed, and the first afternoon, then the first shift back at work. time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again. "
40 " Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son. "