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“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. Since Johnny's father died, Mr. Corleone feels his responsibility even more deeply. As for trying you again, Mr. Corleone is much too sensitive. He never asks a second favor where he has been refused the first.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“In this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
― Kait Rokowski