01c. 1955 ADDo you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
03c. 1955 ADAccidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
04c. 1955 ADI have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
05c. 1955 ADMichael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
06c. 1955 ADYou can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - CaloMario Puzo / quote ↗
07c. 1955 ADFriendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don CorleoneMario Puzo / quote ↗
08c. 1955 ADFriendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don CorleoneMario Puzo / quote ↗
09c. 1955 ADYet, 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 / quote ↗
10c. 1955 ADYou cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
11c. 1955 ADA man's primary duty in life is to earn his own living, but to what purpose if he did not have a wife and children?Mario Puzo / quote ↗
12c. 1955 ADLet us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
13c. 1955 ADNot to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
14c. 1955 ADI'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
16c. 1955 ADGod seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortalsMario Puzo / quote ↗
17c. 1955 ADCharity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound humiliation. Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn on the arrogant bastards who choose to beg instead of starve or let their children starve. It is made clear that the poor seek charity as a great and sordid chicanery in which they delight. And there are some who do. As there are people who take delight in sticking hot needles deep into their abdomens, swallow pieces of broken bottles. A special taste. Speaking for humanity in general, the poor accept charity with a shame and loss of self-respect that is truly pitiful.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
18c. 1955 ADMany young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
19c. 1955 ADThe fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
21c. 1955 ADPreparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
22c. 1955 ADAnd in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
24c. 1955 ADWhat would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
