Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo
Mario Gianluigi Puzowas an American author, screenwriter and journalist. He is known for his crime novels about the Mafia, most notably The Godfather, which he later co-adapted into a three-part film saga directed by Francis Ford Coppola. He received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the first film in 1972 and Part II in 1974. Puzo also wrote the original screenplay for the 1978 Superman film. His last novel, The Family, was released posthumously in 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 October 1920
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone.
Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.
Every family has bad memories.
I want to tell you a story. I have no other vanity.
I will make you an offer you cannot refuse
I like to drink wine more than I used to. Anyway, I'm drinking more.
Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family...
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
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.
ِAn offer you can't refuse
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.
No, that's not possible," Michael said. "Killed, yes; jail, no.
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.