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Mario Puzo Quote: “I believe in America. America’s made my fortune.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Santino, never let anyone outside the Family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “The world is what it is, and you are what you are.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Don Vito Corleone was a man to whom everybody came for help, and never were they disappointed. 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 Quote: “And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “A man’s first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “People change, they have faulty memories, gratitude for past generosities fades.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Life is so beautiful.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “With a great effort the Don opened his eyes to see his son once more. He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, “Life is so beautiful.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “The art of this was to ignore all insults, all threats; to turn the other cheek.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Don’t ever take sides with anyone against the Family again.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “It’s more important that you grow up to be a man,” he said, “than to be a genius.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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. Since Johnny’s father died, Mr. Corleone feels his responsibility even more deeply. As for trying you again, Mr. Corleone is much too sensitive. He never asks a second favor where he has been refused the first.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not”-Don Corleone.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “Fari vagnari a pizzu.” Pizzu means the beak of any small bird such as a canary.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool’s end.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “The man who plays alone never loses.’ ” Guiliano.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “Always remember that and live your life not to be a hero but to remain alive. With time, heroes seem a little foolish.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “Lawyers can steal more money with a briefcase than a thousand men with guns and masks.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “I’ll tell you one thing you didn’t learn from him: talking the way you’re talking now. 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.” Michael.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “We hope someday to be saints, but not martyrs.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “I believe in friendship and I’m willing to show my friendship first.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “But great men are not born great, they grow great, and so it was with Vito Corleone.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it’s too hard a life.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “These things have to happen once every ten years or so. It gets rid of the bad blood. And then if we let them push us around on the little things they wanta take over everything. You gotta stop them at the beginning. Like they shoulda stopped Hitler at Munich, they should never let him get away with that, they were just asking for big trouble when they let him get away with that.” Michael.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “They made it personal when they shot Pop. It is not business, it’s personal.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “It was not necessary that he be your friend, it was not even important that you had no means with which to repay him. Only one thing was required. That you, you yourself, proclaim your friendship. And then, no matter how poor or powerless the supplicant, Don Corleone would take that man’s troubles to his heart.”
Mario Puzo Quote: “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 Quote: “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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