Top 100 Mario Puzo Quotes
#1. it's just business nothing personal...
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#2. ...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.
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#3. I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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#4. Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not-Don Corleone
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#5. None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it's too hard a life.
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#6. 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.
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#7. Anybody. She uses her body like I use the loose
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#8. When Johnny didn't answer, the Don went on. Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than government. It is almost the equal of family. Never forget that.
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#9. Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers.
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#10. Destiny had decided that he was to become a Don and had brought Fanucci to him to set him on his destined path.
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#11. 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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#13. A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. I do not seek it or desire it. If I must, I will accept the punishment for all my sins.
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#18. 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. It
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#19. A lawyer can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns.
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#20. What would the world come to if people kept carrying grudges against all reason? That has been the cross of Sicily, where men are so busy with vendettas they have no time to earn bread for their families.
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#21. Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.
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#22. Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
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#23. When they come... they come at what you love.
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#24. 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.
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#25. I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.
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#26. Neri was content, satisfied that he lived in a world that properly rewarded a man who did his duty.
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#27. All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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#28. 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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#29. 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.
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#30. That's like bringing a guy up from the minors to pitch the World Series.
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#31. I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
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#32. Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
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#33. A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man
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#34. Life is a comical business, and there is
nothing funnier than love traveling through time.
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#35. 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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#36. Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
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#37. Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.
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#38. Everything you do in life use percentage as your god.
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#39. Lampone made a gesture that said he would be patient, knowing his reward was certain.
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#40. I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
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#41. Power isn't everything ...its the only thing.
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#42. I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
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#43. She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature
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#44. 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.
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#46. 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
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#47. ..for Justice, we must go to Don Corleone.
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#49. Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money.
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#50. It's more important that you grow up to be a man," he said, "than to be a genius.
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#51. Do not count on the gratitude of deeds done for people in the past,you must make them grateful for things you will do for them in the future.
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#52. We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
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#53. 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.
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#55. People change, they have faulty memories, gratitude for past generosities fades.
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#56. 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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#57. 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.
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#58. 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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#59. Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them
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#60. 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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#61. The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.
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#62. Raw brilliance needs long years of hard work to develop properly.
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#63. Never let anyone know what you are thinking.
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#64. 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.
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#65. A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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#66. Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family ...
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#68. Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
-Don Vito Corleone
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#69. 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.
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#70. Tell my father I wish to be his son.
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#72. He had been a tough teenager in New York's Hell's Kitchen.
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#73. I would trust you with my whole fortune," he told the president. "I would trust you with my life and the welfare of my children. It is inconceivable to me that you would ever trick me or otherwise betray me. My whole world, all my faith in my judgment of human character would collapse.
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#74. Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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#75. Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.
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#76. Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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#77. Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world.
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#78. The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.
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#79. But his Godfather had never said such and such a thing could be done without having it done.
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#80. Tell my father I wish to be his son. -Michael Corleone
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#81. No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.
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#82. 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
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#83. 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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#84. In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.
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#85. Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.
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#86. As bread is sweet to us," he said, "so is the blood of the poor to the rich who drink it." It
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#87. 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?
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#88. The victory of the Corleone Family was complete. During that same twenty-four-hour period Clemenza and Lampone turned loose their regimes and punished the infiltrators of the Corleone domains.
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#89. Walter Kaylin was great! He was outrageous, he just carried it off. He'd have this one guy killing a thousand other guys. Then they beat him into the ground, you think he's dead, but he rises up again and kills another thousand guys.
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#90. 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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#91. Friendship and money: oil and water.
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#92. 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
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#93. Writing, like gambling, was always a big part of my life," he used to say. "Both gave me sanctuary from the world. And you never really had to kill someone to get what you wanted. You just had to beat fate.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying.
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#96. You can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living.
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#97. Among reasonable men problems of business could always be solved.
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#98. Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
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#99. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
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#100. A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
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