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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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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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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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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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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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
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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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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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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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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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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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ِAn offer you can't refuse.
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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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I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
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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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And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
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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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It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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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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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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Any man can turn traitor.
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