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Mario Puzo Quote: “He said to the cardinal, “I’m a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “A man who commits a criminal act exercises the power of God over another human being. Then it becomes the decision of the victim whether to accept this other god in his life.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “For the Sicilian believes that vengeance is the only true justice, and that it is always merciless.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 reasonableness.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Sometimes I’d see a movie in a private screening room. No fun. People took phone calls and messages while watching. Made jokes, talked. When I go to a movie I’m a true believer. Or I just walk out.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “I cannot wait an eternity for happiness.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Mafia,” in Arabic, means a place of sanctuary, and the word took its place in the Sicilian language when the Saracens ruled the country in the tenth century.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Everything went right for him until that final year. Then why didn’t he recover? Change or die he once said. That was what life was all about. And he simply couldn’t change.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “When he wrote about class, he claimed that people with a great deal of money had to be cruel and defensive, and that the poor ought to become criminals since they had to fight laws written by the rich to protect their money. He wrote that all welfare was simply a necessary bribe to keep the poor from starting a revolution. About religion, he wrote that it should be prescribed like medication.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “I asked god for a bike, but i know god doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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?”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Never make a threat. Reason with people.” The word “reason” sounded so much better in Italian, ragione, to rejoin. The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “He was in extremis. He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, “Life is so beautiful.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen’s knowledge, broken his word in such matters.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “Again it was like the English he so much admired, those people who could be so subtly rude that you basked in their insults for days before you realized they had mortally wounded you.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “All Sicilians are good eaters, when there is food to be had, and one of the few jokes people dared to make about Don Croce was that he would rather eat well than kill an enemy.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “The two men, one so huge, one so tiny, left the cemetery together. Terraced gardens girdled the sides of the surrounding mountains with green ribbons, great white rocks gleamed, a tiny red hawk of Sicily rode down toward them on a shaft of sunlight.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “But his Godfather had never said such and such a thing could be done without having it done.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “You 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.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “That is Sicily,” the Don said. “There is always treachery within treachery.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Never get angry,′ the Don had instructed. ‘Never make a threat. Reason with people.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “The promised reward of heaven is too far away, men must have some pleasure now. God will forgive them.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “The mouth was not so much cruel as lifeless; thin, rubbery and the color of veal.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “You cannot say ‘no’ to the people you love, not often. That’s the secret.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “The government in Rome with its legal forms demanded the truth. The priest in the confessional box commanded the truth under pain of everlasting hell. But truth was a source of power, a lever of control, why should anyone give it away?”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Christian forgiveness was a contemptible refuge of the coward.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Don Corleone was too weak to speak much but he wished to listen and exercise veto powers.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Drop the gun, pick up the cannoli.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “He reminded him that whatever sins were committed here on earth, no man must forget that eternal forgiveness awaited him if he were a proper Christian.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Any profession was worthy of respect to men who for centuries earned bread by the sweat of their brows.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “Don Croce immediately led him into the garden, for like all Sicilians he ate his meals out of doors when he could.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “After all, education is the key to a higher civilization.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Nothing could hide the tiredness of their spirit and their flesh; time had eroded their godhead. They posed and moved as charmingly as he remembered but they were like wax fruit, they could not lubricate his glands.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “The Cleveland syndicate, perhaps the most powerful of the strictly gambling operations in the United States, was represented by a sensitive-looking elderly man with gaunt features and snow-white hair. He was known, of course not to his face, as “the Jew” because he had surrounded himself with Jewish assistants rather than Sicilians. It was even rumored that he would have named a Jew as his Consigliere if he had dared.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “He realized that at the root of Guiliano’s romanticism was the brilliant penetration of paranoia.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “At one of these shrines, Michael saw a woman on her knees praying, her husband sitting in their donkey-drawn cart guzzling a bottle of wine. The donkey’s head dropped like a martyr’s.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “At this point Frisella, the barber, came out of his shop to join in the fun. Behind him was the Maresciallo, pompous and important, rubbing his smooth red face. He was the only man in Montelepre who had himself shaved every day.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “But there were too many factions, too many special interests that conflicted.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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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