Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Mario Puzo
- 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.
- A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.
- The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.
- You cannot say ‘no’ to the people you love, not often. That’s the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a ‘yes’. Or you have to make them say ‘no.’ You have to take time and trouble.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
- Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
- We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
Mario Puzo (1920-1999) was an American author and screenwriter. He was born in New York City to Italian immigrant parents and grew up in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Puzo served in World War II and later attended New York’s New School for Social Research.
Puzo started his career writing pulp fiction stories for magazines, but he is best known for his novel “The Godfather” (1969), which became a bestseller and was adapted into an iconic film trilogy by Francis Ford Coppola. Puzo also wrote other novels, including “Fools Die” (1978), “The Sicilian” (1984), and “Omerta” (2000).
In addition to his career as a novelist, Puzo also wrote screenplays, including for the films “Earthquake” (1974), “Superman” (1978), and “The Cotton Club” (1984).
Puzo was married and had five children. He died in 1999 at the age of 78 from heart failure in his home on Long Island, New York.
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