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I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

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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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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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I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.
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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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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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The infant is ten and he stays.
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It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
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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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He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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You think this is a trap then? the Count asked. I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise, the Prince answered. Which is why I'm still alive.
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
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There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
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Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.
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He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
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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 understand everything,” he said. “You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see me, just as I’m glad to see you because no more loneliness.” “That’s what I mean,” said Fezzik.
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Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble, His brain is just not in the pink, His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double, Because everyone needs him to think.
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Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.
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