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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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
Writer
New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
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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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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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It's just business nothing personal.
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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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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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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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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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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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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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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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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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