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Power wears out those who do not have it.

Mario Puzo

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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
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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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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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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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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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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
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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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Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
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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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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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I will make you an offer you cannot refuse
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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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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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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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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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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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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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ِAn offer you can't refuse.
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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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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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