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Who are you? No one of consequence. I must know. Get used to disappointment.

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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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I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
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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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Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
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I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.
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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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Get used to disappointment.
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