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Book: The Sicilian
Quotes of Book: The Sicilian

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 Sicilian
That is Sicily," the Don said. "There is always treachery within treachery."
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
the Don never held a grudge that impaired his future profits.
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
though Italy governed Sicily, no true Sicilian felt he was an Italian.
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
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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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
they would never shame a statue of the Virgin Mary, but in the hot blood of vendetta they would shotgun the Pope himself for breaking omerta,
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
checked the bins in the holy relic workshop
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
His appearance was intimidating not from any single feature but from a lifelong habit of presenting a formidable front to the outside world.
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
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.
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
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.
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Mario Puzo _ The Sicilian
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.
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