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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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Power

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ِAn offer you can't refuse.
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It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
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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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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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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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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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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 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 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 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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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.
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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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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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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
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