Sometimes you don't sound like you're kidding, you know, there's a lotta people around. Relax, will ya? Ya flip right out, what's got into you? I'm breaking your balls a little bit, that's all. Maybe you didn't hear about it, you've been away a long time. Frankie, was he shaking? I wonder about you sometimes, Henry. Ya motherfucker! I almost had him, I almost had him. How the fuck am I funny, what the fuck is so funny about me? Tell me, tell me what's funny! You mean, let me understand this cause, ya know maybe it's me, I'm a little fucked up maybe, but I'm funny how, I mean funny like I'm a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I'm here to fuckin' amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny? funny, you know the way you tell the story and everything.

What do you mean, you mean the way I talk? What? It's a good story, it's funny, you're a funny guy. They were always fucking up like that, and I didn’t want them fucking up with my life.You're a pistol, you're really funny.

In my own drug case, for instance, I knew that the informant was Bobby Germaine's son, because the cops had accidentally left his name in the court papers. It wasn't that the feds were crooked and would sell me out. > And still, the idea of trusting myself to the feds was almost as scary as having to face Jimmy. Wiseguys like Paulie have been paying off the cops for so many years that they have probably sent more cops' kids to college than anyone else. … The other reason you have to be allied with somebody like Paulie is to keep the cops off your back.

All they got from Paulie was protection from other guys looking to rip them off. The guys who worked for Paulie had to make their own dollar. > There were hundreds of guys who depended upon Paulie for their living, but he never paid out a dime.

Finally, after a couple of weeks, my mother had to go down to the post office and complain.' > Then Tuddy said from now on all mail from the school gets delivered to the pizza parlor, and if the guy ever again delivers another letter from the school to my house, Tuddy's going to shove him in the pizza oven feet first. They are addicted to drugs and to gambling, so the fun is predictable. Even as they are killing people, they like to defend themselves as being just like big kids, who like to have fun. It should be interesting to see things from Henry Hill and his wife's perspectives, but there is so little there.

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