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Mario Puzo

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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


#men

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.


— Mario Puzo


#inspirational

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


— Mario Puzo


#family

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.


— Mario Puzo


#don #godfather #mario #puzo #vito

We are all honorable men here, we do not have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.


— Mario Puzo


#men

He'd always been a man who followed his head and not his heart.The heart was just a bloody motor.The head was meant to drive


— Mario Puzo


#love #mafia #life

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


— Mario Puzo


#paraphrased #simile #life

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


#inspirational

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.


— Mario Puzo


#medicine

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.


— Mario Puzo


#death






About Mario Puzo

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Did you know about Mario Puzo?

At periods in the 1950s and early 1960s Puzo worked as a writer/editor for publiMario Puzor Martin Goodman's Magazine Management Company. Due to his poor eyesight the military did not let him undertake combat duties but made him a public relations officer stationed in Germany. In 1950 his first short story The Last Christmas was publiMario Puzod in American Vanguard.

He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972 and 1974. Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15 1920 – July 2 1999) was an Italian American author and screenwriter known for his novels about the Mafia including The Godfather (1969) which he later co-adapted into a film by Francis Ford Coppola.

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