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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
Anything
Crafts
Nobody

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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
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When I left you, you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.
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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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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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The enemy is always in the mind.
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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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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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I write out of revenge.
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You think this is a trap then? the Count asked. I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise, the Prince answered. Which is why I'm still alive.
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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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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You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
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Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
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A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
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He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
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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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You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)
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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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You're alive! Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.
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