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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ad5e450 | But his Godfather had never said such and such a thing could be done without having it done. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 06db762 | With a great effort the Don opened his eyes to see his son once more. ... He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful." ... 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." | Mario Puzo | ||
| 9421118 | These things have to happen once every ten years or so. It gets rid of the bad blood. And then if we let them push us around on the little things they wanta take over everything. You gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they were just asking for big trouble when they let him get away with that." Michael" | Mario Puzo | ||
| ecefc8f | Is It possible to live in such a world where everyone does what he pleases? No one is punished by God or man and no one has to earn a living? Are there such women who follow every whim? Men such foolish weaklings, who succumb to every little desire, every little dream of happiness? Where are the honest husbands who work to earn their bread, who think of the best ways to protect their children from fate and the cruel world? Where are the peo.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| e10d8fa | Raw brilliance needs long years of hard work to develop properly. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 0e97c5a | Brasi left the room. Two of his men assisted the midwife and the baby was born, the mother was exhausted and went into a deep sleep. Brasi was summoned and Filomena, who had wrapped the newborn child in an extra blanket, extended the bundle to him and said, "If you're the father, take her. My work is finished." Brasi glared at her, malevolent, insanity stamped on his face. "Yes, I'm the father," he said. "But I don't want any of that race t.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| de5354e | I'll tell you one thing you didn't learn from him: talking the way you're talking now. There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 51cccea | At that moment Sonny noticed that the other car had not kept going but had parked a few feet ahead, still blocking his way. At that same moment his lateral vision caught sight of another man in the darkened tollbooth to his right. But he did not have time to think about that because two men came out of the car parked in front and walked toward him. The toll collector still had not appeared. And then in the fraction of a second before anythi.. | murder poetry violence | Mario Puzo | |
| 0b3d19c | He had asked Hagen one final question. "Does this man have real balls?" Hagen translated the question properly in his mind. Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge?" | the-godfather | Mario Puzo | |
| 87cfbfa | Nunca se aborreca -- Don Corleone o havia instruido. -- Nunca faca uma ameaca. Argumente com as pessoas. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 9ccc208 | Vy, zhenshchiny, khotite ravenstva, no dazhe ne ponimaete mekhanizma vlasti. Vasha kozyrnaia karta -- manda, i vy triasete eiu pered vashimi opponentami. Predlagaete ee. Esli b ne polovoi organ, vas by voobshche nikto ne slushal. Muzhchiny mogut zhit' bez liubvi, no ne bez seksa. Zhenshchinam neobkhodima liubov', a bez seksa oni mogut i oboitis'. -- Okruzhaiushchie ego zhenshchiny druzhno zaprotestovali, no Ozano stoial na svoem: -- Zhenshc.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 4124308 | Ozano, vy pokorili ogromnoe kolichestvo zhenshchin. V chem sekret vashego uspekha? -- sprosila odna iz zhenshchin. Vse rassmeialis', v tom chisle i Ozano. Etim on eshche bol'she voskhitil menia: muzhchina, piat' raz zhenivshiisia, kotoryi mog pozvolit' sebe smeiat'sia. -- Prezhde chem ia podpuskaiu ikh k sebe, ia govoriu, chto vse dolzhno byt' na sto protsentov tak, kak schitaiu ia, i ne inache. Oni ponimaiut moiu pozitsiiu i prinimaiut ee... | Mario Puzo | ||
| 4d846fd | On ukazyval, chto avtomaticheskaia korobka peredach pozvolila sest' za rul' millionam zhenshchin, kotorye ne mogli spravit'sia s perekliucheniem skorostei. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 41b4c5e | they would never shame a statue of the Virgin Mary, but in the hot blood of vendetta they would shotgun the Pope himself for breaking omerta, | Mario Puzo | ||
| b6c57db |
V bol'shinstve na fabrike rabotali chernye. < |
Mario Puzo | ||
| f0192bb |
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 < |
Mario Puzo | ||
| c80797d | 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.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| a7c03fa | 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. | Mario Puzo | ||
| f692307 | 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. | Mario Puzo | ||
| a5e565c | 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. | Mario Puzo | ||
| f0d86b0 | 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, | Mario Puzo | ||
| 84e6e3c | 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.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| a38f22d | 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 .. | Mario Puzo | ||
| a71e045 | 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. | Mario Puzo | ||
| ca076a6 | 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. | Mario Puzo | ||
| eed6554 | There are honorable men who spend all their lives preparing for a supreme act of treachery, | Mario Puzo | ||
| 85051b5 | 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. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 72e6c8e | on his own base. The Clericuzio estate in Quogue comprised twenty acres surrounded by a ten-foot-high redbrick wall armed by | Mario Puzo | ||
| 030987f | 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. | Mario Puzo | ||
| cb068c0 | 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. | american-justice justice | Mario Puzo | |
| d9ab2a9 | His appearance was intimidating not from any single feature but from a lifelong habit of presenting a formidable front to the outside world. | Mario Puzo | ||
| a9ac58b | Nothing was going to stop him from owning this girl, possessing her, locking her in a house and keeping her prisoner only for himself. | Mario Puzo | ||
| c6200b1 | It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. | Anti-Americanism | ||
| a72e3b3 |
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 < |
Mario Puzo | ||
| 9c363f0 | checked the bins in the holy relic workshop | Mario Puzo | ||
| e433659 | 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. .. | Mario Puzo | ||
| b40f90d | 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.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| cd0bd4b | Why couldn't he get a straight answer from any of them? Because this was Sicily, he thought. Sicilians had a horror of truth. | Mario Puzo | ||
| dc8bee3 | though Italy governed Sicily, no true Sicilian felt he was an Italian. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 3d2b442 | the Don never held a grudge that impaired his future profits. | Mario Puzo | ||
| 0f9109f | 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 | external-love fools-die love | Mario Puzo | |
| bd37ea4 | 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.. | Mario Puzo | ||
| fa1a304 | 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. | childhood-trauma death trauma vunerable | Mario Puzo | |
| ac48647 | That is Sicily," the Don said. "There is always treachery within treachery." -- | Mario Puzo |