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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
Sicily
Shotguns
Dangerous
Women
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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'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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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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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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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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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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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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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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I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
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Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
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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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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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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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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
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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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