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Is this a kissing book?

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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
Kissing
Book
Brides
Princess

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Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.
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I could give you my word as a Spaniard, Inigo said. No good, the man in black replied. I've known too many Spaniards.
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Nobody knows anything.
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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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My Westley will come for me.
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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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One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. [...] Down went the man in black. [...] You can die too for all I care, she said, and then she turned away. Words followed her. Whispered from far, weak and warm and familiar. As...you...wish...
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You are wonderful, Father.I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.
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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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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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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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