Mario Puzo vs. Honoré de Balzac

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

Mario Puzo

Mario Puzo

1920 – 1999

Literature
United States

Mario Puzo was an American novelist best known for his crime drama The Godfather, which inspired a highly successful film franchise.

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"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'…"

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

1799 – 1850

journalism
France
literary realism

French novelist and playwright who was a leading figure of 19th-century literary realism; he is best known for the vast series La Comédie Humaine and for essays such as Physiologie du mariage which examine social institutions like marriage.

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"Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the lie to all your laws; can you n…"

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Connections

Honoré de Balzac was influenced by Mario Puzo

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