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I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.

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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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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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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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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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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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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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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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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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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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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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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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Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
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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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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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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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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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