02c. 1955 ADI spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
03c. 1955 ADThe other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
05c. 1955 ADAt 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 anything actually happened, Santino Corleone he knew he was a dead man. And in that moment his mind was lucid, drained of all violence, as if the hidden fear finally real and present had purified him.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
06c. 1955 ADAt 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 anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man. And in that moment his mind was lucid, drained of all violence, as if the hidden fear finally real and present had purified him.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
07c. 1955 ADThere are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
08c. 1955 ADKurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
09c. 1955 AD"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
10c. 1955 ADIt was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
11c. 1955 ADNever show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother,your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily breadMario Puzo / quote ↗
14c. 1955 ADA lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.Mario Puzo / quote ↗
