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It's just business nothing personal.

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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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I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
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Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close... that, supposedly, I won't suspect. Hagen: Somebody like me. Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you. Hagen: I'm German-American. Michael: To them that's Irish.
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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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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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Any man can turn traitor.
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Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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Power wears out those who do not have it.
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I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
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Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.
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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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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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I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.
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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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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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