Mario Puzo Quotes
It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.
"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.
It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
It was a lie but he believed in telling lies to people. Truth telling and medicine just didn't go together except in dire emergencies, if then.
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.
You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo
Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind, in the very "poetry of his soul".Well, it's not easy but men do it all the time.
I have no such powers. If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.
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.
A man's primary duty in life is to earn his own living, but to what purpose if he did not have a wife and children?
There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.