“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“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.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
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