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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 like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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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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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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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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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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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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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
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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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And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
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Power wears out those who do not have it.
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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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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Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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