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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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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
Killing
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Girl
Doesn
Doe
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Spaniard
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Liar! Liar! shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. Back, Witch-- he commanded. I'm not a witch, I'm your wife-- she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--
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We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.
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I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.
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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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Her mother was my wife, the Count roared, loudest of all. You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world. And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. Daddy likes you, she said.
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I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.
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Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.
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Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
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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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You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said.
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Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult.
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You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
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The infant is ten and he stays.
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Love is many things none of them logical.
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
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He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
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