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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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Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.
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Why do you wear a mask and hood? I think everybody will in the near future, was the man in black's reply. They're terribly comfortable.
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Who says life is fair, where is that written?
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The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)
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Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.
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I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
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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 write out of revenge.
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Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.
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There are always too few perfect breasts in this world leave yours alone.
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
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The enemy is always in the mind.
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
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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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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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