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In Hollywood, no one knows anything.

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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
Hollywood
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I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. If this is true, or if you are one of the people who believe this is true, then the one universal way to enjoy life is still the same, which is to learn to be grateful that it is not worse!!
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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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There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
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Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)
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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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When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
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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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Anybody that says different is selling something.
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Get used to disappointment.
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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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The enemy is always in the mind.
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At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.
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Who says life is fair, where is that written?
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
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No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
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I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.
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I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
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