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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
Author
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
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Make
Offer
Refuse
Offers

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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.
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Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
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Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
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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.
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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .
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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
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Revenge is a dish that tastes best when served cold.
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