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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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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It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
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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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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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We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
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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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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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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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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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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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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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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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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
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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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He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, Life is so beautiful. ... Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important.
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I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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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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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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