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Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Mario Puzo

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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
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Sensitivity
Tragedy
Wish
Death

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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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God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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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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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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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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Any man can turn traitor.
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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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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
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Power wears out those who do not have it.
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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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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 find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
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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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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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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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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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