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Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what? I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.
William Goldman
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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
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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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There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
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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 am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.
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People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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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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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
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Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
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I don't like killing a girl, the Spaniard said. God does it all the time if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.
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I understand everything,” he said. “You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see me, just as I’m glad to see you because no more loneliness.” “That’s what I mean,” said Fezzik.
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You have a dizzying intellect.
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We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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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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Who are you? No one of consequence. I must know. Get used to disappointment.
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