Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was an 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. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in both 1972, and 1974.
Works:
Novels: The Dark Arena (1955), The Fortunate Pilgrim (1965), The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw (1966), The Godfather (1969), Fools Die (1975), The Sicilian (1984), The Fourth K (1991), The Last Don (1996), Omerta (2000), The Family (2001, with Carol Gino)
Non-fiction: The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions (1972), Inside Las Vegas (1977)
Quotes by Mario Puzo :
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Even the strongest man needs friends.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
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