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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
Brides
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Eternity
West

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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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Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
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You are wonderful, Father.I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.
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It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
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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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You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
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My Westley will come for me.
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I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.' 'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.
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Her mother was my wife, the Count roared, loudest of all. You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world. And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. Daddy likes you, she said.
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You have a dizzying intellect.
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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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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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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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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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Love is many things none of them logical.
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Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)
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The infant is ten and he stays.
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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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