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Actions defined a man; words were a fart in the wind.
— Mario Puzo
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Mario Puzo
novelist, screenwriter, writer, science fiction writer, diplomat
1920 – 1999
Mario Francis Puzo was an American author and screenwriter. He wrote crime novels about the Italian-American Mafia and Sicilian Mafia, most notably The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film trilogy directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and for Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film and its 1980 sequel. His final novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001.
All Quotes by Mario Puzo
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
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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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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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