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You can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living. ~ Mario Puzo
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Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man, ~ Mario Puzo
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Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. ~ Mario Puzo
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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . ~ Mario Puzo
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Kurt Cilke liked dogs because they could not conspire. They could not hide hostility, and they were not cunning. They did not lie awake at night planning to rob and murder other dogs. Treachery was beyond their scope. ~ Mario Puzo
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He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, "Life is so beautiful."
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Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. ~ Mario Puzo
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Even the strongest man needs friends. ~ Mario Puzo
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Tell my father I wish to be his son. ~ Mario Puzo
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That night a bomb exploded in the Corleone Family mall in Long Beach, thrown from a car that pulled up to the chain, then roared away. That night also two button men of the Corleone Family were killed as they peaceably ate their dinner in a small Italian restaurant in Greenwich Village. The Five Families War of 1946 had begun. ~ Mario Puzo
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Friendship and money: oil and water. ~ Mario Puzo
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The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek. ~ Mario Puzo
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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. ~ Mario Puzo
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Every man has one destiny, ~ Mario Puzo
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults ~ Mario Puzo
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Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old. ~ Mario Puzo
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They made it personal when they shot Pop. It is not business, it's personal. ~ Mario Puzo
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He was not a bad man, he was a good husband and father, but constant worry about his investments, about the money he earned, about the inevitable expenses that came with being a man of property had worn his nerves to a frazzle so that he was in a constant state of irritation ~ Mario Puzo
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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty! ~ Mario Puzo
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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. ~ Mario Puzo
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I do not seek it or desire it. If I must, I will accept the punishment for all my sins. ~ Mario Puzo
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Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles. ~ Mario Puzo
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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 ~ Mario Puzo
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I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia. ~ Peter Benchley
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going to the mattresses ~ Mario Puzo
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Great men have allied themselves with the angels at a terrible price to themselves. Evil men indulge their slightest whim for small satisfactions while accepting the fate of burning in Hell. ~ Mario Puzo
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I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. ~ Mario Puzo
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I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more. ~ Mario Puzo
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It was presumptuous for one man to forgive another. That was the duty of God. For men to pretend such mercy was an idle pride and a lack of respect. He did not desire any such mercy for himself. ~ Mario Puzo
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He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive ~ Mario Puzo
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Jack Woltz: Now you listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch, let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is! Johnny Fontane will never get that movie! I don't care how many dago guinea wop greaseball goombahs come out of the woodwork!
Tom Hagen: I'm German-Irish.
Jack Woltz: Well, let me tell you something, my kraut-mick friend, I'm gonna make so much trouble for you, you won t know what hit you!
Tom Hagen: Mr. Woltz, I'm a lawyer. I have not threatened you. ~ Mario Puzo
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No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no. ~ Mario Puzo
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A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. ~ Mario Puzo
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Men in general sooner forget the lost their matrimony than the death of their father ~ Mario Puzo
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His wife killed him. Too simple. His childhood, his mother, his father, his siblings? Even if the scars of childhood heal, you never grow out of being vulnerable. Age is no shield against trauma. ~ Mario Puzo
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He had no illusions about the dangerousness of his mission. He spent the first year meeting with different chiefs of gangs in New York, laying the groundwork, sounding them out, proposing spheres of influence that would be honored by a loosely bound confederated council. But there were too many factions, too many special interests that conflicted. Agreement was impossible. Like other great rulers and lawgivers in history Don Corleone decided that order and peace were impossible until the number of reigning states had been reduced to a manageable number. ~ Mario Puzo
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Every man measures his own greed. ~ Mario Puzo
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Kay could see how Michael stood to receive their homage. He reminded her of statues in Rome, statues of those Roman emperors of antiquity, who, by divine right, held the power of life and death over their fellow men. One hand was on his hip, the profile of his face showed a cold proud power, his body was carelessly, arrogantly at ease, weight resting on one foot slightly behind the other. The caporegimes stood before him. In that moment Kay knew that everything Connie had accused Michael of was true. She went back into the kitchen and wept. ~ Mario Puzo
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This country has been good to me. ~ Mario Puzo
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Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes. ~ Mario Puzo
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Actions define a man,words are just a fart in the wind. ~ Mario Puzo
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She cannot return your love. She does not live in our world. She does not even live in the world of animals. She lives on a different star, absolutely alone. ~ Mario Puzo
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. ~ Mario Puzo
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I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. ~ Mario Puzo
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It pleased him to see the hurt look on her face, the tears springing into her eyes. She might be a daughter of the Great Don but she was his wife, she was his property now and he could treat her as he pleased. It made him feel powerful that one of the Corleones was his doormat. ~ Mario Puzo
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Every man has but one destiny Veto Corleone ~ Mario Puzo
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My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth. ~ Mario Puzo
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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. ~ Mario Puzo
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God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals ~ Mario Puzo
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth. ~ Mario Puzo
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Listen to me. I will tell you the truth about a man's life. I will tell you the truth about his love for women. ~ Mario Puzo
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I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity. ~ Mario Puzo
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But time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty. Now Bonasera felt the sickness of a man faced with disaster. ~ Mario Puzo
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The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun. ~ Mario Puzo
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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. ~ Mario Puzo
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I believe in friendship and I'm willing to show my friendship first. ~ Mario Puzo
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Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money. ~ Mario Puzo
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Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that. If you had built up a wall of friendship you wouldn't have to ask me to help. - Don Corleone ~ Mario Puzo
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There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget it. ~ Mario Puzo
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Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman. ~ Mario Puzo
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Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying. ~ Mario Puzo
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. ~ Mario Puzo
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Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them ~ Mario Puzo
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I'll reason with him", Vito Corleone said.It was to become a famous phrase in the years to come.It was to become the warning rattle before the deadly strike.

- The Godfather. ~ Mario Puzo
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Luca Brasi was such a man. But he was such an extraordinary man that for a long time nobody could kill him. Most of these people are of no concern to ourselves but a Brasi is a powerful weapon to be used. The trick is that since he does not fear death and indeed looks for it, then the trick is to make yourself the only person in the world that he truly desires not to kill him. He has only that one fear, not of death, but that you may be the one to kill him. He is yours then. ~ Mario Puzo
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Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound humiliation. Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn on the arrogant bastards who choose to beg instead of starve or let their children starve. It is made clear that the poor seek charity as a great and sordid chicanery in which they delight. And there are some who do. As there are people who take delight in sticking hot needles deep into their abdomens, swallow pieces of broken bottles. A special taste. Speaking for humanity in general, the poor accept charity with a shame and loss of self-respect that is truly pitiful. ~ Mario Puzo
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Do not exercise power because it is easy to your hand. And do not get carried away with a certainty of victory when your intellect tells you there is even a hint of tragedy. ~ Mario Puzo
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A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor. ~ Mario Puzo
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The Don moved to sit behind the big desk. 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 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no'. You have to take time and trouble. But I'm old-fashioned, you're the new modern generation, don't listen to me. ~ Mario Puzo
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Leave the gun, take the cannoli. ~ Mario Puzo
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Power wears out those who do not have it. ~ Mario Puzo
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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. ~ Mario Puzo
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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition. ~ Mario Puzo
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Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery ~ Mario Puzo
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I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit. ~ Mario Puzo
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We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again. ~ Mario Puzo
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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright. ~ Mario Puzo
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He wanted the world to believe that he was a horse rider. So let him ride his horses at the bottom of the ocean. ~ Mario Puzo
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It was not intelligent to damage the ego of a young boy. You can, with some impunity, insult an older man who has already been humiliated by life itself and will not take to heart the small slights of another human being. But a young man thinks these offences mortal. ~ Mario Puzo
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Life is so beautiful ~ Mario Puzo
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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. ~ Mario Puzo
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Neri was content, satisfied that he lived in a world that properly rewarded a man who did his duty. ~ Mario Puzo
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Tell the truth, all Sicilians prefer smelling the shit of their villages to the best perfumes in Paris. What am I doing here? I could have escaped to Brazil like some others. Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us. ~ Mario Puzo
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You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool's end. ~ Mario Puzo
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Power isn't everything ...its the only thing. ~ Mario Puzo
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You know, it's a funny thing. You can smoke yourself to death, drink yourself to death, work yourself to death, and even eat yourself to death. But that's all acceptable. The only thing you can't do medically is screw yourself to death, and yet that's where they put all the obstacles. ~ Mario Puzo
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The meeting would be safe as a wedding. ~ Mario Puzo
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Did Jack Woltz have the balls to risk everything, to run the chance of losing all on a matter of principle, on a matter of honor; for revenge? ~ Mario Puzo
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The Don knew that love is not a reliable emotion to matter how deep. Love does not ensure gratitude, does not ensure obedience, does not provide harmony in so difficult a world. No one understood this better than Don Clericuzio. ~ Mario Puzo
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Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters. ~ Mario Puzo
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Life is Beautiful ~ Mario Puzo
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...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history. ~ Mario Puzo
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For the first time the Don showed annoyance. He poured another glass of anisette and drank it down. He pointed a finger at his son. "You want to learn," he said. "Now listen to me. A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone else calls honor. This dishonor, as you call it, I willingly take upon myself. I did it to save your life as you once took on dishonor to save mine. You would have never left Sicily alive without Don Croce's protection. So be it. Do you want to be a hero like Guiliano, a legend? And dead? I love him as the son of my dear friends, but I do not envy him his fame. You are alive and he is dead. Always remember that and live your life not be be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish."

Michael sighed. "Guiliano had no choice," he said.

"We are more fortunate," the Don said.

It was the first lesson Michael received from his father and the one he learned best. It was to color his future life, persuade him to make terrible decisions he could never have dreamed of making before. It changed his perception of honor and heroism. It helped him survive, but it made him unhappy. For despite the fact that his father did not envy Guiliano, Michael did. ~ Mario Puzo
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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. ~ Mario Puzo
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Michael Corleone understood for the first time why men like his father chose to become thieves and murderers rather than members of the legal society. The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit. ~ Mario Puzo
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This place is full of shit. It's run by aliens from outer space. Sure, they make the food look Italian, they make it smell Italian, but it tastes like goo from Mars. ~ Mario Puzo
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He had been a tough teenager in New York's Hell's Kitchen. ~ Mario Puzo
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He claimed that 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. ~ Mario Puzo
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I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. ~ Mario Puzo
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When we are children, when we are young, it is natural to love our friends, to be generous to them, to forgive their faults.. But as we grow old and have to earn our bread, friendship does not endure so easily. We must always be on our guard. Our elders no longer look after us, we are no longer content with those simple pleasures of children. Pride grows in us – we wish to become great or powerful or rich, or simply to guard ourself against misfortune. ~ Mario Puzo
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We hope someday to be saints, but not martyrs ~ Mario Puzo
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