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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Mario Puzo

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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
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Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
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Any man can turn traitor.
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And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
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ِAn offer you can't refuse.
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there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
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It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
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Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
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But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.
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Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
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Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.
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God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
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We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
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Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
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