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  Quotes by Puzo, Mario




Mario Puzo (October 15, 1920 July 2, 1999) was an American author known for his fictional books about the Mafia..

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

Puzo, Mario on law and lawyers    Share

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"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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"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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