"There is brutality in abundance, but there is also a sickening justification and glorification of a detestable regime. Everything is brutal. Sex is abundant; it is not love, just animality, except in a few instances."
— Mario Puzo

January 1, 1970

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Review of The Godfather in America (May 1969), quoted in James Thomas Chiampi, 'Resurrecting The Godfather', MELUS, Vol. 5, No. 4, New Writers and New Insights (Winter 1978), p. 18