Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. An...
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.
Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound...
У каждого находится предлог для того, чтобы поступиться своей добродетелью. И ломают тебя, только когда ты сам готов сломаться.
He had been a tough teenager in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen.
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it.
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
He had no illusions about the dangerousness of his mission. He spent the first year meeting with different chiefs of gangs in New York, laying the groundwork, sounding them out, proposing spheres of i...
Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Cor...
Don Corleone did this by putting a pistol to the forehead of the band leader and assuring him with the utmost seriousness that either his signature or his brains would rest on that document in exactly...
Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy.
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,...
—Феминистки утверждают, что мы доминируем и управляем их жизнями. Конечно, это глупость. Как и утверждение, что женщины сексуально более чистоплотны, чем мужчины. Женщины трахались бы с кем угодно, гд...
— Вы, женщины, хотите равенства, но даже не понимаете механизма власти. Ваша козырная карта — манда, и вы трясете ею перед вашими оппонентами. Предлагаете ее. Если б не половой орган, вас бы вообще ни...
В любой момент времени ни один мужчина не имеет права ревновать больше чем одну женщину… если только он не пуэрториканец
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear...
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.
Neri was content, satisfied that he lived in a world that properly rewarded a man who did his duty.
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.