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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
Mind
Always
Buttercup
Talks
Everybody
Beauty
Talk
Beautiful
Enough

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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
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