Robert D. McFadden famous quotes
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The myths die hard, especially within the Mafia.
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The old images seem like a caricature now: the shadowy world of secret rituals, the aging dons behind high-walled estates, the passion for vengeance and power over other men. For years, the Mafia was the stuff of novels and movies and whispers on Mulberry Street.
-- Robert D. McFadden
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.
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Work harder, work longer, and earn less because the mafia needs your money.
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One usually dies because one is alone, or because one has got into something over one's head. One often dies because one does not have the right alliances, because one is not given support. In Sicily the Mafia kills the servants of the State that the State has not been able to protect.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
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Magic is at the core of myths.
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If I don't eat right when I wake up, I die.
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We need to discover once again that we have something to die for, for it is only when we have something to die for that we have something to live for.
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If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.
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