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Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

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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
Made
Love
Conceited
Conceit
Absurd
Beauty
Perfect
Beautiful

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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
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You are wonderful, Father.I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.
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And what have I done? What? WHAT?...You've stolen them. With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood she knew who them was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.
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People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.
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Who are you? No one of consequence. I must know. Get used to disappointment.
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Anybody that says different is selling something.
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No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
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I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
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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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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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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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Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?
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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
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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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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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There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.
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