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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
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Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
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Death
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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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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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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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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
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I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
Mario Puzo
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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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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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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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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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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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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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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ِAn offer you can't refuse.
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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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And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
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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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It's just business nothing personal.
Mario Puzo
Any man can turn traitor.
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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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