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You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

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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
Agony
Deeply
Alone
Much
Concentrate

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You are wonderful, Father.I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.
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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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I am your Prince and you will marry me, Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, I am your servant and I refuse. I am you Prince and you cannot refuse. I am your loyal servant and I just did. Refusal means death. Kill me then.
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Enough about my beauty, Buttercup said. Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.
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I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
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Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)
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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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A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
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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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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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Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.
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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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He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
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