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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.

  Mario Puzo

  Competition, Genius, Scandal

  1969 The Godfather, bk.3, ch.14.

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• 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

  Enemy, Faults, Underestimate

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.174, Penguin

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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

  War, Suicidal, Gambling

  Mario Puzo (1977). “Inside Las Vegas”

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• Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Honorable Man, Whole Life

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• I will make you an offer you cannot refuse

  Mario Puzo

  Refuse, Offers

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• Tell my father I wish to be his son.

  Mario Puzo

  Father, Son, Wish

  Mario Puzo (2012). “The Godfather”, p.471, Random House

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• We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Honorable Man, Giving

  "The Godfather".

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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.

  Mario Puzo

  Beautiful, Eye, Garden

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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.

  Mario Puzo

  Writing, Wife, Ruins

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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.

  Mario Puzo

  Science, Men, Gambling

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

  Mario Puzo

  Blow, Hands, Life Is Like

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

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• The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

  Mario Puzo

  Matter, Way, Facts

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• All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

  Mario Puzo

  Gambling, Superstitions, Paranoid

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• Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

  Mario Puzo

  War, Pestilence, Madness

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

  Mario Puzo

  Destiny, Men, Veto

  "The Godfather".

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

  Mario Puzo

  Drinking, Wine, Age

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

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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

  Jobs, Hard Times, Killing

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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

  Son, Thinking, Knows

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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.

  Mario Puzo

  World, Murder, Christmas Gift

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

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• And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Fractions, Dead Man

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.209, Penguin

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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

  Sight, Hands, Rose

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

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• Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

  Mario Puzo

  Gun, Cannolis

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• You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Lucky, Praying

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

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• She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone.

  Mario Puzo

  Prayer, Children, Believe

  Mario Puzo (2005). “The Godfather”, p.345, Penguin

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

  Mario Puzo

  Movie, Hollywood Films, Film History

  The Godfather ch. 1 (1969)

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