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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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Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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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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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 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 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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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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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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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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Any man can turn traitor.
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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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We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
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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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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
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ِAn offer you can't refuse.
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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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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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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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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 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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