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What he really hated were the ones who had started screwing at twelve and were all fucked out by the time they were twenty and just going through the motions and some of them were the prettiest of all and could fake you out.

And your Godfather has more brains than Jack Woltz. He doesn’t go up to these people and put a gun to their heads and say, ‘Vote for Johnny Fontane or you are out of a job.’ He doesn’t strong-arm where strong-arm doesn’t work or leaves too many hard feelings. He’ll make those people vote for you because they want to.

Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

“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.”

She had never felt so close to him, never so much in love and if someone had told her she would not see Michael again until three years passed, she would not have been able to bear the anguish of it.

Michael, bewildered, said. “What the hell does that fish mean?” It was Hagen the Irisher, the Consigliere, who answered him. “The fish means that Luca Brasi is sleeping on the bottom of the ocean,” he said. “It’s an old Sicilian message.”

He tickled Khartoum’s belly and said with sincere admiration, “Look at that cock on him. I should have such a cock.”

Hagen had learned the art of negotiation from the Don himself. “Never get angry,” the Don had instructed. “Never with people.”

You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool’s end.

You accept judgment from a judge who sells himself like the worst whore in the streets.

Мужчина, который не проводит время со своей семьей, никогда не станет настоящим мужчиной.

Законник с портфелем в руках загребёт больше, чем тысяча вооружённых налётчиков в масках.

....и непростительно женолюбив.ю хоть это слово теряет в переводе с сицилийского одно из живописных значений, а именно: подобен младенцу, ненасытно припавшему к материнской груди, то есть, проще говоря, - не мужчина.

«Пора принимать меры, не то — Назорин позволил себе отпустить мысленно скабрезность, — не то этот мошенник протиснется к ней в печь со своим горячим батоном»

Ах, мужчины умеют ценить дружбу больше, чем мы, женщины.

Боль и страх... не столь конечны, как смерть.

— Месть — это блюдо, которое надо есть остывшим, — сказал он.

В детстве он был очень добрым, но судьба, видимо, решила сделать его убийцей.

Он никогда не жаловался на свою низкую зарплату, он понял, что должен сам о себе заботиться…

Сейчас в наших руках азартные игры и профсоюзы, и на сегодняшний день это лучшее капиталовложение; но завтра принадлежит наркотикам.