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Author: Mario Puzo
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Mario Puzo _ The Godfather
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?
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Mario Puzo _ The Last Don
But above all with a patriarchal love for his followers. Virtue was rewarded. Injuries avenged. A livelihood guaranteed.
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
The fabulous land where there was justice for the poor, where the government was not the lackey of the rich, where the penniless Sicilians rose to riches simply by good honest labor.
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
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.
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Mario Puzo _ The Godfather
My father is a businessman trying to provide for his wife and children and those friends he might need someday in a time of trouble. He doesn't accept the rules of the society we live in because those rules would have condemned him to a life not suitable to a man like himself, a man of extraordinary force and character. What you have to understand is that he considers himself the equal of all those great men like Presidents and Prime Ministers and Supreme Court Justices and Governors of the States. He refuses to live by rules set up by others, rules which condemn him to a defeated life. But his ultimate aim is to enter that society with a certain power since society doesn't really protect its members who do not have their own individual power. In the meantime he operates on a code of ethics he considers far superior to the legal structures of society.
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Mario Puzo _ The Godfather
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.
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Mario Puzo _ The Last Don
Other people veto their existence. I don't let anyone do that.
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Mario Puzo _ The Last Don
Strangers decide their lives.
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Mario Puzo _ The Godfather
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty.
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Mario Puzo _ The Godfather
Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here.
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Mario Puzo _ The Godfather
In short, the gabbellotto was a mafioso who for a certain sum of money protected the real estate of the rich from all claims made on it by the poor, legal or illegal. When any poor peasant tried to implement the law which permitted him to buy uncultivated land, the gabbellotto frightened him off with threats of bodily harm or death. It was that simple.
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
That is Sicily," the Don said. "There is always treachery within treachery."
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