We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not … - Mario Puzo

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Secure writers don't sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

Mario Puzo

We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.

Know, Knows, Men, Murder

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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.

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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.

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When I was young, some women told me they loved me for my long eyelashes. I accepted. Later it was for my wit. Then for my power and money. Then for my talent. Then for my mind-deep. OK, I can handle all of it. The only woman who scares me is the one who loves me for myself alone. I have plans for her. I have poisons and daggers and dark graves in caves to hide her head. She can't be allowed to live. Especially if she's sexually faithful and never lies and always puts me ahead of everything and everyone.

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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

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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.

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Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well, at least I'm not dead.

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The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things.

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