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Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.

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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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Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,--darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love. And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done: she looked right into his eyes. He closed the door in her face.
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Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. If this is true, or if you are one of the people who believe this is true, then the one universal way to enjoy life is still the same, which is to learn to be grateful that it is not worse!!
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Have fun storming the castle!
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My Westley will come for me.
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Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
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You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
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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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Who are you? No one of consequence. I must know. Get used to disappointment.
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.
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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
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There is no room in my body for anything but you.
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I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock.
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One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to think they know what they're doing, and the minute that happens, it's over.
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There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.
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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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