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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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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Screenwriter
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Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
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Now what happens? asked the man in black. We face each other as God intended, Fezzik said. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone. You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?
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Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
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There is no room in my body for anything but you.
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Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.
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I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.
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You seem a decent fellow, Inigo said. I hate to kill you. You seem a decent fellow, answered the man in black. I hate to die.
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
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Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.
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Her mother was my wife, the Count roared, loudest of all. You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world. And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. Daddy likes you, she said.
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One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
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Get used to disappointment.
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I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.
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Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.
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