Mario Puzo Quotes

• Even the strongest man needs friends.

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• No, I never heard nothing about it, but when they name any disease after two guys, it’s got to be terrible!

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• Show me a gambler and I’ll show you a loser, show me a hero, and I’ll show you a corpse.

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• I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse.

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• Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.

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  Topics in Friendship

• Accidents don’t happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

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  Topics in Life

• Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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  Topics in Life

• Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

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• I believe in America. America’s made my fortune.

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• 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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  Topics in Death

• The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

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  Topics in Money, Power

• 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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• I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

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• 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.

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• Friendship and money: oil and water.

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  Topics in Friendship, Money

• Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

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  Topics in Politics

• A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

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Mario Puzo (17)

Birth:	15th October, 1920
Death:	2nd July, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

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