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
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More Quotes By Mario Puzo
  1. 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.

  2. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

  3. Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

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

  5. 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.

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