The Godfather
Quotes from the Book
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.
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Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster
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I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit.
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Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
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"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.
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The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.
19
Everything you do in life use percentage as your god.
18
Life is a comical business, and there is nothing funnier than love traveling through time.
16
His wife killed him. Too simple. His childhood, his mother, his father, his siblings? Even if the scars of childhood heal, you never grow out of being vulnerable. Age is no shield against trauma.
8
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
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Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers.
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"A page-flipping tale of power, brutality and glamour (Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Godfather.
Played out in the underground worlds of high-stakes gambling, publishing, and the film industry, this epic thriller follows two brothers, Merlyn and Arite, as they delve into the dangerous underbelly of American life. From Las Vegas to New York to Hollywood, there is one thing that remains constant: organized crime and the law are simply two sides of the same coin...
Book details
- First published
- 1978
- Author
- Mario Puzo
- Genre
- Fiction
- Goodreads rating
- 3.76 (8k ratings)
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