Mario Puzo Quotes

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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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  Past, World, Excuse

  Mario Puzo (1996). “The Last Don”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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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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  Family, Loyalty, Lying

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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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  Block, Fate, Men

  Mario Puzo (2002). “The Godfather”, N A L Trade

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• Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime.

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  Successful, Crime, Fortune

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• Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

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  Hate, Hatred, Enemy

  "Fictional character: Michael Corleone". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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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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  Lying, Dark, Eyelashes

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• Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

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  Greatness, Men, Hollywood Life

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.168, Penguin

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

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  Enemy, Faults, Underestimate

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.310, Penguin

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• The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

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  Children, World, Money Power

  "Fictional character: Michael Corleone". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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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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  Trying, Done, Forget

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.118, Penguin

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

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  Anger, People, Advice

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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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  Loyalty, Commitment, Honor

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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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  Destiny, Men, Path

  Mario Puzo (2002). “The Godfather”, N A L Trade

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

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  Inspirational, Retirement, Worry

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• In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

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  Shotguns, Dangerous

  "Fictional character: Calo". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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

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  Vanity, Stories, Want

  Mario Puzo (2012). “Fools Die”, p.444, Random House

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

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  Gun, Knowing, Finance

  "Fictional character: Don Lucchesi". "The Godfather: Part III", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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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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  Falling In Love, Being In Love, Love Is

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

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  Real, Men, Mafia

  "Fictional character: Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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  Inspirational, Movie, Hollywood Films

  The Godfather: Part II (motion picture) (1974). Coauthored with Francis Ford Coppola.

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

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  Men, Wind, Action

  Mario Puzo (1996). “The Last Don”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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

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  Funny, Humorous, Gun

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969). This line does not appear in the movie version of The Godfather.

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• Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!

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  Gratitude, Doe, Erode

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.200, Penguin

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• Friendship and money: oil and water.

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  Friendship, Money, Real Friends

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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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  Men, Fellow Man, Lines

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