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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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
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New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
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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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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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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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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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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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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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Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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I'll make him an offer he 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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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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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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What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
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He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
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We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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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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I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
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