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Mario Puzo Quotes
Best Quotes by Mario Puzo (Top 10)
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I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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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.- Don Corleone
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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
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Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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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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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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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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Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
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More Mario Puzo Quotes
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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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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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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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
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Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.
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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
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When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.
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In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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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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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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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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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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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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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
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