Mario Puzo Short Quotes

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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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Never show your stuff to anybody. You can get inhibited.

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He's a businessman... I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

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No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.

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Never sell your book to the movies until after it is published.

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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

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Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

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The man with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.

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Never talk about what you are going to do until after you have written it.

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Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.

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Life is like a box of hand grenades, you never know what will blow you to kingdom come.

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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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Never trust anybody but yourself. That includes critics, friends, and especially publishers.

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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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Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

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We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

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The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

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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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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

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Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the next day fresh, get rid of your wife.

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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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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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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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It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.

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