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Who are you? No one of consequence. I must know. Get used to disappointment.
William Goldman
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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
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Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
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Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.
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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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And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.
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I could give you my word as a Spaniard, Inigo said. No good, the man in black replied. I've known too many Spaniards.
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The boys. The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dimdomed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?
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The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
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Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.
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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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He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.
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Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
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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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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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You are wonderful, Father.I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.
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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
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Anybody that says different is selling something.
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Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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