Lorenzo Carcaterra Quotes

#1. Only risky plans have any chance to be great.

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#2. We do many things we shouldn't in the course of a life. It doesn't make them right or wrong, just a part of who we are.

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#3. He had no tolerance for acts of betrayal or cruelty and lacked Angelo's taste for the minute details of a business deal. He was a man totally in the moment, who knew only to respond to the action with an action. He was a pure gangster.

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#4. No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.

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#5. It's always better to like a gangster from a distance anyway. Like a tiger cub in a cage. They always look soft and cute and warm behind those iron bars. Everybody's happy, smilimg, waving, taking pictures. But you take away those bars and all that goes away. All that's left is the fear.

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#6. A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.

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#7. Revenge. Sweet lasting revenge. And now it was time for all of us to get a taste.

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#8. The night and the streets were ours and the future lay sparkling ahead.
And we thought we would know each other forever.

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#9. Tell me this," Pudge would often ask me, as he sat and read about the exorbitant funeral of a rival. "If he was the guy with all the power, then how come he's riding in the lead car, stuffed inside a coffin?

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#10. The older you get, the deadlier you have to be and you use age to your advantage. You make it a strenght. Most of us are more dangerous the longer we live. If we didn't care about dying when we were young, we're not going to be too concerned about it when we have two feet in our grave.

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