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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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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
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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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For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
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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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Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?
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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
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We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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There are always too few perfect breasts in this world leave yours alone.
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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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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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