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Anybody. She uses her body like I use the loose -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
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
Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. -- Mario Puzo
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty! -- Mario Puzo
Life is a comical business, and there is
nothing funnier than love traveling through time. -- Mario Puzo
And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man. -- Mario Puzo
Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind. -- Mario Puzo
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
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 -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
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
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
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. -- Mario Puzo
Thank God you're poor, Mom. -- Mario Puzo
The Don considered a use of threats the most foolish kind of exposure; the unleashing of anger without forethought as the most dangerous indulgence. No one had ever heard the Don utter a naked threat, no one had ever seen him in an uncontrollable rage. It was unthinkable. -- Mario Puzo
We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again. -- Mario Puzo
Santino, come here. What's the matter with you? I think your brain is going soft with all that comedy you are playing with that young girl. Never tell anyone outside the Family what you're thinking again. Go on. -- Mario Puzo
Any man can turn traitor. -- Mario Puzo
Don Corleone had promised his godson he would get the part and Don Corleone had never, to Hagen's knowledge, broken his word in such matters. -- Mario Puzo
Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family ... -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman. -- Mario Puzo
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
Take the gun. Leave the cannoli. -- Mario Puzo
Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone -- Mario Puzo
Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not-Don Corleone -- Mario Puzo
Michael: Barzini will set me up through somebody close ... that, supposedly, I won't suspect.
Hagen: Somebody like me.
Michael: You're Irish, they won't trust you.
Hagen: I'm German-American.
Michael: To them that's Irish. -- Mario Puzo
Genius had its rewards. -- Mario Puzo
Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes. -- Mario Puzo
I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me. -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun. -- Mario Puzo
Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.
-Don Vito Corleone -- Mario Puzo
A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns. -- Mario Puzo
A lawyer can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns. -- Mario Puzo
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. -- Mario Puzo
treachery can't be forgiven. -- Mario Puzo
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
He said to the cardinal, I'm a peasant, not instructed in the ways of heaven. But I have never broken my word. And you, a Cardinal of the Catholic Church, with all your holy garments and crosses of Jesus, lied to me like a heathen Moor. Your sacred office alone will not save your life. -- Mario Puzo
Revenge is a dish which taste best when served cold. -- Mario Puzo
I believe in friendship and I'm willing to show my friendship first. -- Mario Puzo
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
None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it's too hard a life. -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
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
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. -- Mario Puzo
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
...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history. -- Mario Puzo
Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold. -- Mario Puzo
it's just business nothing personal... -- Mario Puzo
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. -- Mario Puzo
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
A man's primary duty in life is to earn his own living, but to what purpose if he did not have a wife and children? -- Mario Puzo
No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no. -- Mario Puzo
Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old. -- Mario Puzo
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
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
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
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
Friendship and money: oil and water. -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
It was understood, it was mere good manners, to proclaim that you were in his debt and that he had the right to call upon you at any time to redeem your debt by some small service. Now -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
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
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
She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature -- Mario Puzo
I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse. -- Mario Puzo
The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody. -- Mario Puzo
Power isn't everything ...its the only thing. -- Mario Puzo
Behind every successful fortune;There is Crime. -- Mario Puzo
Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin. -- Mario Puzo
We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers. -- Mario Puzo
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
Every man has one destiny, -- Mario Puzo
I do not seek it or desire it. If I must, I will accept the punishment for all my sins. -- Mario Puzo
Softly, reassuringly, he comforted his friend, as they waited for death together. As if the Don could truly snatch the life of Genco Abbandando back from that most foul and criminal traitor to man. -- Mario Puzo
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
A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man. -- Mario Puzo
But time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty. Now Bonasera felt the sickness of a man faced with disaster. -- Mario Puzo
The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal. -- Mario Puzo
That's like bringing a guy up from the minors to pitch the World Series. -- Mario Puzo
Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
They made it personal when they shot Pop. It is not business, it's personal. -- Mario Puzo
Nino?" 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. If you had built up a wall of friendships you wouldn't have to ask me to help. -- Mario Puzo
Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it. -- Mario Puzo
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
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
But his Godfather had never said such and such a thing could be done without having it done. -- Mario Puzo
Men in general sooner forget the lost their matrimony than the death of their father -- Mario Puzo
People change, they have faulty memories, gratitude for past generosities fades. -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
Uxuriousness may be the last refuge of the honest man, -- Mario Puzo
Don had made a fewer mistakes and learned from every one of them -- Mario Puzo
Lampone made a gesture that said he would be patient, knowing his reward was certain. -- Mario Puzo
For justice we must go on our knees to Don Corleone. -- Mario Puzo
Not having to worry about money is almost like not having to worry about dying. -- Mario Puzo
Raw brilliance needs long years of hard work to develop properly. -- Mario Puzo
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
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people. -- Mario Puzo
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
He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself. -- Mario Puzo
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
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. -- Mario Puzo
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. -- Mario Puzo
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
The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other. -- Mario Puzo
Freddie's face was anxious."Mike,you sure about Moe Greene selling?He never mentioned it me and he loves the business.I really don't think that he'll sell."
Michael said quietly,"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
The words were said casually yet the effect was chilling. -- Mario Puzo
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line. -- Mario Puzo
You can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living. -- Mario Puzo
Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come -- Mario Puzo
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
Even the strongest man needs friends. -- Mario Puzo
It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell. -- Mario Puzo
Destiny had decided that he was to become a Don and had brought Fanucci to him to set him on his destined path. -- Mario Puzo
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright. -- Mario Puzo
You let women dictate your actions and they are not competent in this world, though certainly they will be saints in heaven while we men burn in hell. -- Mario Puzo
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
have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a bloc of people to vote for them. -- Mario Puzo
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
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
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 -- Mario Puzo
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
You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool's end. -- Mario Puzo
Every family has bad memories. -- Mario Puzo
..for Justice, we must go to Don Corleone. -- Mario Puzo
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
Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked. -- Mario Puzo
Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster -- Mario Puzo
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
The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek. -- Mario Puzo
Mercy is a vice, a pretension to powers we do not have. Those who give mercy commit an unpardonable offense to the victim. And that is not our duty here on earth. -- Mario Puzo
A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor. -- Mario Puzo
He had been a tough teenager in New York's Hell's Kitchen. -- Mario Puzo
Everything you do in life use percentage as your god. -- Mario Puzo
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
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth. -- Mario Puzo
Death is another story. I will never make a joke about death. It is beyond my powers. -- Mario Puzo
The story you are holding was first published in 1969, which was, as you may know, a very interesting year. -- Mario Puzo
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading. -- Mario Puzo
The gunman said, Fabrizzio,Michael Corleone sends you his regards. -- Mario Puzo
going to the mattresses -- Mario Puzo
As bread is sweet to us," he said, "so is the blood of the poor to the rich who drink it." It -- Mario Puzo
Tell my father I wish to be his son. -- Mario Puzo
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone -- Mario Puzo
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
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. -- Mario Puzo
I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity. -- Mario Puzo
Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money. -- Mario Puzo
The meeting would be safe as a wedding. -- Mario Puzo
It's more important that you grow up to be a man," he said, "than to be a genius. -- Mario Puzo
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 a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble. -- Mario Puzo
If anything in this life is certain ... if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone. -- Mario Puzo
Among reasonable men problems of business could always be solved. -- Mario Puzo
I believe in America. America's made my fortune. -- Mario Puzo
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men. -- Mario Puzo
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment. -- Mario Puzo
Every man has but one destiny Veto Corleone -- Mario Puzo
Power wears out those who do not have it. -- Mario Puzo
Leave the gun, take the cannoli. -- Mario Puzo
Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind. -- Mario Puzo
Never let anyone know what you are thinking. -- Mario Puzo
Tell my father I wish to be his son. -Michael Corleone -- Mario Puzo
Keep your friends close but your enemies closer. -- Mario Puzo
He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man. -- Mario Puzo
When they come... they come at what you love. -- Mario Puzo
All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition. -- Mario Puzo
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
A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man -- Mario Puzo
I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more. -- Mario Puzo
Neri was content, satisfied that he lived in a world that properly rewarded a man who did his duty. -- Mario Puzo
Life is so beautiful -- Mario Puzo
Life is Beautiful -- Mario Puzo
This country has been good to me. -- Mario Puzo
Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst. -- Mario Puzo
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults -- Mario Puzo
In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns. -- Mario Puzo
Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world. -- Mario Puzo
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . -- Mario Puzo
I will make you an offer you cannot refuse -- Mario Puzo
