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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
Author
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
Business
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Personal

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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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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
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He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.
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Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
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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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You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
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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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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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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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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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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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He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, Life is so beautiful. ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important.
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I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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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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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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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
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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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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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