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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
Life
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Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.
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No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.
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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
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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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If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
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Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.
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True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
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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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Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
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Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
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I understand everything,” he said. “You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see me, just as I’m glad to see you because no more loneliness.” “That’s what I mean,” said Fezzik.
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I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.
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