Author Birthday – 15 October – Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo was born on 15 October 1920 and died on 2 July 1999.
Mario Puzo Quotes
- Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
- What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
- The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.
- Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser.
- 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.
- Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
- Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day’s writing. If you can’t start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
- A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
- Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgement.
- I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.
Mario Puzo was an American author and screenwriter best known for his Mafia novels, particularly The Godfather. The novel sold 21 million copies worldwide and inspired three films that achieved both critical and commercial success. Its characters became part of American popular culture. Puzo won Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974). He also contributed to the screenplays for the first two Superman films (1978 and 1980) and The Cotton Club (1984).
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by Amanda Patterson
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