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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
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 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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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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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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I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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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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I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
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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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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
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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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We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
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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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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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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 will make you an offer you cannot refuse
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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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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