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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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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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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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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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And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
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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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Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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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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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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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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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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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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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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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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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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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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