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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
Harry Longbaugh
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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)
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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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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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You can never trust what you read.
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You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
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The enemy is always in the mind.
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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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You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
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Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.
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I'm not witch. I'm your wife.
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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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As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
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