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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
Author
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
Fortune
America
Made
Believe

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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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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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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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Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
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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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I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
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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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Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
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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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I will make you an offer you cannot refuse
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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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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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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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: 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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I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
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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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Power wears out those who do not have it.
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