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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
Mario Puzo
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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
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Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
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Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
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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
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Mario Puzo
Many young men started down a false path to their true destiny. Time and fortune usually set them aright.
Mario Puzo
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.
Mario Puzo
God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
Mario Puzo
Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
Mario Puzo
A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
Mario Puzo
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.
Mario Puzo
Power wears out those who do not have it.
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A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.
Mario Puzo
All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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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
Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
Mario Puzo
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo
He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.
Mario Puzo
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo
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.
Mario Puzo
Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
Mario Puzo
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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