Quotes by Mario Puzo

About Mario Puzo:

Mario Gianluigi Puzo is known for his novels about the Mafia, including The Godfather (1969), which was later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972 and 1974.
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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.

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.

Mario Puzo

‎"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.

Mario Puzo

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

Mario Puzo

I'll tell you the only real truth. Cunt is where it all begins and where it all ends. Cunt is the only thing worth living for. Everything else is a fake, a fraud and just shit.

Mario Puzo

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...

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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.

Mario Puzo

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 Ch...

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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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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.

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Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.

Mario Puzo

Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone

Mario Puzo

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

Mario Puzo

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

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

Mario Puzo

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

Mario Puzo

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

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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.

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I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.

Mario Puzo

Author Bio

  • NameMario Puzo
  • DescriptionAmerican Novelist
  • BornOctober 15, 1920
  • DiedJuly 2, 1999
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionNovelist; Screenwriter; Writer
  • WorksThe Godfather
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay); Writers Guild Of America Award