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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
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Failure
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Life

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We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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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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Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
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Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.
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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
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Why do you wear a mask and hood? I think everybody will in the near future, was the man in black's reply. They're terribly comfortable.
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You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.
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Anybody that says different is selling something.
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Fool! cried the hunchback. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
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While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. [...] Down went the man in black. [...] You can die too for all I care, she said, and then she turned away. Words followed her. Whispered from far, weak and warm and familiar. As...you...wish...
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Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?
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Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
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You are wonderful, Father.I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.
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Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.
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The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)
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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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i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion i have not been happy dealing with it.
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I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock.
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When I was your age, television was called books.
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The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.
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