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Ushel zhe ot nee Ozano, po ego slovam, posle togo, kak ona nachala govorit', chto Skott Fitsdzheral'd ukral vse luchshie idei u svoei zheny Zeldy. Chto ona stala by velichaishei pisatel'nitsei, esli by muzh ne obodral ee kak lipku. Ozano skhvatil ee za volosy i tknul nosom v <>: <>. O..
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Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If I can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters. He would follow his father. He would care for his children, his family, his world. But his children would grow in a different world. They would be doctors, artists, scientists. Governors. Presidents. Anything at all. He would see to it that they joined the general family of humanity, but h..
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The victory of the Corleone Family was complete. During that same twenty-four-hour period Clemenza and Lampone turned loose their regimes and punished the infiltrators of the Corleone domains.
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Mario Puzo |
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There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.
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Mario Puzo |
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He felt that flush of antagonism a poor man feels for a rich woman who is in some way asserting her superiority to him because of a wealth and social position.
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Mario Puzo |
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V dannyi moment on nakhodilsia v odnoi s nimi kategorii. Zaiadlykh igrokov. To est' tekh, kto igral radi igry i dolzhen byl proigrat'. Kak geroi, idushchii na voinu, dolzhen umeret'. Pokazhi mne zaiadlogo igroka, i ia pokazhu tebe proigravshegosia, pokazhi mne geroia, i ia pokazhu tebe trup,
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V zhenshchinakh ia videl sviatilishche, pust' i dlia individual'nogo pol'zovaniia, samo sushchestvovanie kotorogo pozvolialo vynesti vse chto ugodno. Kak ia ili liuboi drugoi muzhchina mog vyderzhat' tiagoty povsednevnoi zhizni bez takogo vot sviatilishcha? Ia prikhodil domoi, nenavidia den', kotoryi prishlos' polozhit' na bezrazlichnuiu mne rabotu, volnuias' iz-za deneg, poteriav posledniuiu nadezhdu na to, chto ia stanu znamenitym pisatel..
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Eti rebiata prekrasno ponimali, chto zhenshchina -- vrag, no vrag, bez kotorogo muzhchiny ne mogli sushchestvovat'. I ikh vozmushchalo, chto oni dolzhny platit' etomu vragu dan' -- den'gami, vremenem, priviazannost'iu. Oni ne mogli oboitis' bez zhenshchin. I oni tratili tysiachi dollarov na aviabilety i vezli zhenshchin iz Vegasa v London tol'ko dlia togo, chtoby oni byli riadom. Ob etikh den'gakh oni ne zhaleli. V kontse kontsov, devushke ..
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Mario Puzo |
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Izmenit'sia ili umeret', kak-to raz vyrvalos' u nego. V etom smysl zhizni. On prosto ne smog izmenit'sia. Tak chto vina za sluchivsheesia lezhala na nem.
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Mario Puzo |
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Ty dolzhen ostavit' vse svoi deshevye shtuchki, osobenno s devitsami. Chto iz togo, chto oni khotiat poluchat' podarki? Snimaiut s tebia sotniu baksov, a to i tysiachu? Oni eti den'gi otrabatyvaiut. I ty ne ostaesh'sia u nikh v dolgu. Nel'zia byt' v dolgu u zhenshchiny. Ni v chem i nikogda. S nimi vsegda neobkhodimo rasplachivat'sia. Esli, konechno, ty ne sutener i ne govniuk.
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Mario Puzo |
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There are honorable men who spend all their lives preparing for a supreme act of treachery,
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And so on that bright morning, the smoky Sicilian sun making them sweat, the six Mafia chiefs rode their horses up and down along the wall surrounding Prince Ollorto's estate. The assembled peasants, under olive trees older than Christ, watched these six men, famous all over Sicily for their ferocity. They waited as if hoping for some miracle, too fearful to move forward.
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on his own base. The Clericuzio estate in Quogue comprised twenty acres surrounded by a ten-foot-high redbrick wall armed by
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The Don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio.
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Early on he had been told the famous maxim of American justice, that it was better that a hundred men go free than that one innocent man be punished. Struck almost dumb by the beauty of the concept, he became an ardent patriot. America was his country. He would never leave America.
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american-justice
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His appearance was intimidating not from any single feature but from a lifelong habit of presenting a formidable front to the outside world.
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Mario Puzo |
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Nothing was going to stop him from owning this girl, possessing her, locking her in a house and keeping her prisoner only for himself.
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Mario Puzo |
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Nynche iz bol'shinstva zhenshchin der'mo tak i pret. Mozhet, eto ne ikh vina. Slushai, esli kakaia-nibud' telka otkazyvaetsia trakhat'sia s toboi dva dnia podriad, goni ee von. Esli tol'ko ee ne uvezut v bol'nitsu na mashine <>. Dazhe esli u nee na mande sorok shvov. Mne bez raznitsy, nravitsia ei eto ili net. Inogda mne eto tozhe ne nravitsia, no ia vse delaiu kak nado, u menia vse dolzhno stoiat'. Eto tvoia rabota: esli ..
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checked the bins in the holy relic workshop
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Feministki utverzhdaiut, chto my dominiruem i upravliaem ikh zhizniami. Konechno, eto glupost'. Kak i utverzhdenie, chto zhenshchiny seksual'no bolee chistoplotny, chem muzhchiny. Zhenshchiny trakhalis' by s kem ugodno, gde ugodno i kogda ugodno, esli b ne boialis' oglaski. Feministki bukhtiat o tom, chto bol'shinstvo vlastnykh postov zanimaiut muzhchiny. Tol'ko eto ne muzhchiny. Oni dazhe ne liudi. Eti posty i khotiat zaniat' zhenshchiny. ..
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Poslushai, esli chelovek vliublen, vsia ego zhizn' vertitsia vokrug drugogo cheloveka. Esli etogo net, znachit, rech' idet ne o liubvi. O chem-to eshche. Vozmozhno, o chem-to luchshem, bolee praktichnom. V liubvi po opredeleniiu zalozheny nespravedlivost', nestabil'nost', paranoiia. I muzhchiny zdes' khuzhe zhenshchin. Zhenshchina mozhet trakhat'sia sotniu raz, a potom odin raz otkazat'sia, i muzhchina zataivaet na nee zlo. No, s drugoi sto..
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Why couldn't he get a straight answer from any of them? Because this was Sicily, he thought. Sicilians had a horror of truth.
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Mario Puzo |
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though Italy governed Sicily, no true Sicilian felt he was an Italian.
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the Don never held a grudge that impaired his future profits.
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How I would like that now, that sheer senseless falling in love with externals, the love never earned by qualities of goodness, of character, of intelligence, of wit, of charm, of life-force. In short, how I would like to be loved in a way never earned so that I would never have to keep earning it or work for it
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love
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All of these men were good listeners, patient men. They had one other thing in common. They were those rarities, men who had refused to accept the rule of organized society, men who refused the dominion of other men. There was no force, no mortal man who could bend them to their will unless they wished it. They were men who guarded their free will with wiles and murder. Their wills could be subverted only by death. Or the utmost reasonablen..
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His wife killed him. Too simple. His childhood, his mother, his father, his siblings? Even if the scars of childhood heal, you never grow out of being vulnerable. Age is no shield against trauma.
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That is Sicily," the Don said. "There is always treachery within treachery." --
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In short, the gabbellotto was a mafioso who for a certain sum of money protected the real estate of the rich from all claims made on it by the poor, legal or illegal. When any poor peasant tried to implement the law which permitted him to buy uncultivated land, the gabbellotto frightened him off with threats of bodily harm or death. It was that simple.
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Mario Puzo |
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Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here.
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Mario Puzo |
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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty.
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Mario Puzo |
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Strangers decide their lives.
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Mario Puzo |
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Other people veto their existence. I don't let anyone do that.
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Mario Puzo |
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Don Tommasino also controlled the water rights in the area and vetoed the local building of any new dams by the Roman government. Such dams would ruin the lucrative business of selling water from the artesian wells he controlled, make water too cheap, ruin the whole important water economy so laboriously built up over hundreds of years.
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My father is a businessman trying to provide for his wife and children and those friends he might need someday in a time of trouble. He doesn't accept the rules of the society we live in because those rules would have condemned him to a life not suitable to a man like himself, a man of extraordinary force and character. What you have to understand is that he considers himself the equal of all those great men like Presidents and Prime Minist..
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With children he was playful in that particularly spiteful Sicilian style which is one of the less pleasant sides of the island character; he would nip their ears with his scissors and sometimes cut their hair so short that their heads looked like billiard balls.
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Mario Puzo |
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The fabulous land where there was justice for the poor, where the government was not the lackey of the rich, where the penniless Sicilians rose to riches simply by good honest labor.
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Mario Puzo |
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But above all with a patriarchal love for his followers. Virtue was rewarded. Injuries avenged. A livelihood guaranteed.
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Mario Puzo |
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What manner of men are we then, if we do not have our reason," he said. "We are all no better than beasts in a jungle if that were the case. But we have reason, we can reason with each other and we can reason with ourselves. To what purpose would I start all these troubles again, the violence and the turmoil?"
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