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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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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
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Highland Park
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S. Morgenstern
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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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I don't like killing a girl, the Spaniard said. God does it all the time if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.
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Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
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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've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.
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Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?
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Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
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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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I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
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In Hollywood, no one knows anything.
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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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Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
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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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Have fun storming the castle!
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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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Anybody that says different is selling something.
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It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
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The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
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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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There are always too few perfect breasts in this world leave yours alone.
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