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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
William Goldman
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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
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Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
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Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.
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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
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He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
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