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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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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
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The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)
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No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.
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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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Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
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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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And what have I done? What? WHAT?...You've stolen them. With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood she knew who them was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.
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As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
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Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
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The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
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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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He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
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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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Let me get this thing straight, Inigo--we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS? She turned toward the door then. You have no chance of winning my heart.
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