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Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
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
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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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What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
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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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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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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'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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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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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
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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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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
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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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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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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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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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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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