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The Godfather

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Fools Die

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The Last Don

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The Family

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“What seemed funny to Davie is that they were good friends in such a short time, and yet they had a poor opinion of each other. But Mr Mac had sensed what Davie was thinking. He gave him a bottle of orange and said, 'Don't get your feelings hurt, Sonny. I start off with the very highest opinion of everybody, so I have to think less of them with everything they say. But I still think of you very highly. Isn't that better than if I have the lowest opinion of people and my opinion went up with everything they said?”

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Book:The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw
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“Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He’d have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he’s dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys.”

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Book:Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men's Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, '60s & '70s
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“Tom, don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. You know where I learned that from? The Don. My old man. The Godfather. If a bolt of lightning hit a friend of his the old man would take it personal. He took my going into the Marines personal. That's what makes him great. The Great Don. He takes everything personal Like God. He knows every feather that falls from the tail of a sparrow or however the hell it goes? Right? And you know something? Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.”

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Book:The Godfather
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“But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should accidentally shoot him, if he should hang himself while in his jail cell, if new witnesses appear to testify to his guilt, my superstition will make me feel that it was the result of the ill will still borne me by some people here. Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here. If his plane show fall into the sea or his ship sink beneath the waves of the ocean, if he should catch a mortal fever, if his automobile should be struck by a train, such is my superstition that I would blame the ill will felt by people here. Gentlemen, that ill will, that bad luck, I could never forgive. But aside from that let me swear by the souls of my grandchildren that I will never break the peace we have made. After all, are we or are we not better men than those pezzonovanti who have killed countless millions of men in our lifetimes?”

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Book:The Godfather
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“- Ty ciemniaczko, ty niewiarygodna ciemniaczko. Nigdy nie słyszałaś o innym sposobie uprawiania miłości, o wiele bardziej starożytnym, bardziej cywilizowanym? Naprawdę jesteś taka niewinna? - Ach, to - powiedziała. - Ach, to - powtórzył, przedrzeźniając ją. - Przyzwoite dziewczyny tego nie robią, męscy mężczyźni tego nie robią. Nawet w 1948 roku. Otóż, dziecinko, mogę cię zaprowadzić tutaj, w Las Vegas, do domu pewnej starszej pani, która była najmłodszą szefową najpopularniejszego burdelu w epoce Dzikiego Zachodu, bodajże w latach osiemdziesiątych XIX wieku. Lubi opowiadać o tych dawnych czasach. I wiesz, co mi mówiła? Że wszyscy ci rewolwerowcy, ci męscy, twardzi, strzelający bez pudła kowboje, zawsze prosili dziewczęta o "francuskiego", o to, co my, doktorzy, nazywamy stosunkiem oralno-genitalnym, a co ty nazywasz "ach, to". Przyszło ci kiedyś do głowy zrobić "ach, to" z twoim umiłowanym Sonnym?”

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Book:Ojciec Chrzestny. Trylogia
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