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I write out of revenge.

William Goldman

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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
Revenge
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I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative. I didn't know there was such a Fellow, Buttercup said. Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either.
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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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We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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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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Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
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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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Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.
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I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
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