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Enough about my beauty, Buttercup said. Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

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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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Buttercup
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Fool! cried the hunchback. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
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Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
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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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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.
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Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
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You're alive! Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.
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I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.
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