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Mario Puzo

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

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    Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind

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    A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

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    All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

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

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

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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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    Any man can turn traitor.

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    Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

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    ‎"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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    Even as a young man, Vito Corleone became known as a "man of reasonableness." He never uttered a threat. He always used logic that proved to be irresistible. He always made certain that the other fellow got his share of profit. Nobody lost. He did this, of course, by obvious means. 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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    Even the strongest man needs friends.

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    Every family has bad memories.

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    Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster

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    Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

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    Fredo, you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family again. Ever.

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    Friendship and money: oil and water.

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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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    Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

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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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    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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    He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

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    I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

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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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    If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

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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 have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

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

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    I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

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    In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

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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.

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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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    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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    It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.

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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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    I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.

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    Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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

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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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    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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    Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

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    Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

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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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    Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

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

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    Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.

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    Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.

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    Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.