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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.
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
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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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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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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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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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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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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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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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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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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
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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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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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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
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