“When we are children, when we are young, it is natural to love our friends, to be generous to them, to forgive their faults.. But as we grow old and have to earn our bread, friendship does not endure so easily. We must always be on our guard. Our elders no longer look after us, we are no longer content with those simple pleasures of children. Pride grows in us – we wish to become great or powerful or rich, or simply to guard ourself against misfortune.”
― Mario Puzo, quote from The Sicilian
“...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.”
― Mario Puzo, quote from The Sicilian
“My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth.”
― Mario Puzo, quote from The Sicilian
“A man’s first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.”
― Mario Puzo, quote from The Sicilian
“Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked.”
― Mario Puzo, quote from The Sicilian
“Tell the truth, all Sicilians prefer smelling the shit of their villages to the best perfumes in Paris. What am I doing here? I could have escaped to Brazil like some others. Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.”
― Mario Puzo, quote from The Sicilian
“Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.”
― Mario Puzo, quote from The Sicilian
“As bread is sweet to us,” he said, “so is the blood of the poor to the rich who drink it.” It”
― Mario Puzo, quote from The Sicilian
“The man who plays alone never loses.’ ” Guiliano”
― Mario Puzo, quote from The Sicilian
“A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.”
― Mario Puzo, quote from The Sicilian
Mario Puzo
Born place: in Manhattan, New York, The United States
Born date October 15, 1920
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