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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’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
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The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
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No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
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Her mother was my wife, the Count roared, loudest of all. You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world. And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. Daddy likes you, she said.
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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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