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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.
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mafia
diplomacy
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Mario Puzo |
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No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no."
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don
mario
puzo
michael
godfather
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Mario Puzo |
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But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should accidentally shoot him, if he should hang himself while in his jail cell, if new witnesses appear to testify to his guilt, my superstition will make me feel that it was the result of the ill will still borne me by some people here. Let me go further. If m..
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the-don
the-godfather
vendetta
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Mario Puzo |
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92711c8
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When they come... they come at what you love.
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Mario Puzo |
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81a0491
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But you're the toughest son of a b!&EUR# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think."
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lonely
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Mario Puzo |
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eb619c4
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I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.
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the-godfather
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Mario Puzo |
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47846e3
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Forgive. Forget. Life is full of misfortunes.
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the-godfather
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Mario Puzo |
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492af73
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Oh, what a wicked world it is that drives a man to sin.
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Mario Puzo |
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f97d0d3
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And in that fraction of a second before anything actually happened, Santino Corleone knew he was a dead man.
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human-nature
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Mario Puzo |
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e4e67d3
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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
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friendship
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Mario Puzo |
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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.
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Mario Puzo |
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4609d10
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Like many business men of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient.
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Mario Puzo |
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203e252
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Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
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the-godfather
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Mario Puzo |
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f31dea8
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Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery
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Mario Puzo |
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8814253
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The gunman said, "Fabrizzio,Michael Corleone sends you his regards."
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Mario Puzo |
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c912e43
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Tell my father I wish to be his son. -Michael Corleone
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Mario Puzo |
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When we are children, when we are young, it is natural to love our friends, to be generous to them, to forgive their faults.. But as we grow old and have to earn our bread, friendship does not endure so easily. We must always be on our guard. Our elders no longer look after us, we are no longer content with those simple pleasures of children. Pride grows in us - we wish to become great or powerful or rich, or simply to guard ourself against..
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Mario Puzo |
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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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Mario Puzo |
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05c4f47
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Leave the gun, take the cannoli.
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Mario Puzo |
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430cbef
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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.
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grudge
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Mario Puzo |
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a09caaa
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Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.
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Mario Puzo |
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f79d889
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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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omerta
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Mario Puzo |
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58cb815
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You lived like a fool and you have come to a fool's end.
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Mario Puzo |
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64d017d
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Mothers are like cops. They always believe the worst.
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Mario Puzo |
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181683c
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Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.
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life
truth
serious
talk-is-cheap
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Mario Puzo |
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69230b6
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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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the-godfather
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Mario Puzo |
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4ac9a4f
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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.
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Mario Puzo |
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A man who is not a father to his children can never be a real man.
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Mario Puzo |
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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
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Mario Puzo |
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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.
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tom-hagen
michael-corleone
the-godfather
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Mario Puzo |
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She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature
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Mario Puzo |
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Life is a comical business, and there is nothing funnier than love traveling through time.
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Mario Puzo |
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c93059d
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what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.
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Mario Puzo |
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great men are not born great, they grow great,
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Mario Puzo |
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93c77c6
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Everything you do in life use percentage as your god.
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risks
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Mario Puzo |
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e9dcdce
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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.
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Mario Puzo |
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A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
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Mario Puzo |
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35bf0ce
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Ah, men understand friendship more than we woman.
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the-godfather
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Mario Puzo |
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You talk about vengeance. Is vengeance going to bring your son back to you or my boy to me? I forgo the vengeance of my son. But I have selfish reasons, my youngest son was forced to leave this country because of this Sollozzo business. All right, now I have to make arrangements to bring him back here safely cleared of all these false charges. But I'm a superstitious man and if some unlucky accident should befall him, if he should get shot ..
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Mario Puzo |
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Charity is salt in the wound. It is painful. The state gives charity with the bitter hatred of a victim to his blackmailer. The receiver of free money is subjected to harassment, insult, and profound humiliation. Newspapers are enlisted to heap scorn on the arrogant bastards who choose to beg instead of starve or let their children starve. It is made clear that the poor seek charity as a great and sordid chicanery in which they delight. And..
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poverty
media
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Mario Puzo |
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0ccb7de
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A man's first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.
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Mario Puzo |
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7650620
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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.
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Mario Puzo |
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Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money.
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Mario Puzo |
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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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