Mario Puzo citations

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“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.”

“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.”

“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”

“it's just business nothing personal…”

“Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family…”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.”

“Power wears out those who do not have it.”

“He should be careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man.”

“‎"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.”

“Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone”

“Any man can turn traitor.”

“Tell my father I wish to be his son.”

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

“I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.”

“When they come… they come at what you love.”

“Woman and children can afford to be careless, men can not"-Don Corleone”

“One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns…”

“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.”