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I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
Mario Puzo
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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
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Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
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It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
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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 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 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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Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
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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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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
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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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Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
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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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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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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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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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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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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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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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We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
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I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
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