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He's a businessman... I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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Never talk about what you are going to do until after you have written it.
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If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone.
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Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness — but not by the passing of time.
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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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Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
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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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Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster.
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Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
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Never trust anybody but yourself. That includes critics, friends, and especially publishers.
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There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.
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Never show your stuff to anybody. You can get inhibited.
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We are a family, and the loyalty of the family must come before anything and everyone else. For if we honor that commitment, we will never be vanquished — but if we falter in that loyalty we will all be condemned.
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Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.
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The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals, too many pitiful weaknesses, too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers, husbands and wifes, fathers, sons, mothers, daughters
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"You got a ninety percent chance," he said. Osno said quickly, "How do you get that figure?" He always did that whenever somebody pulled a statistic on him. He hated statisticians.
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Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her? Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul". Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.
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You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
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No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.
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He felt the table was having a run of bad luck, but he knew. Gronevelt would never accept that explanation. Gronevelt believed that the house could not lose over the long run, that the laws of percentage were not subject to chance. As gamblers believed mystically in their luck so Gronevelt believed in percentages.
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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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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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The other Dons in the room applauded and rose to shake hands with everybody in sight and to congratulate Don Corleone and Don Tattaglia on their new friendship. 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. That was friendship enough in this world, all that was needed.
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Mario Puzo
Born:
October 15, 1920
Died:
July 2, 1999
(aged 78)
Bio:
Mario Gianluigi Puzo was an American author, screenwriter and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Mafia, most notably The Godfather, which he later co-adapted into a three-part film saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Known for:
The Godfather (1969)
Omertà
The Sicilian (1984)
The Last Don (1996)
The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965)
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