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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
Life
Brides
Princess
Revenge
Rest
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No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
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i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion i have not been happy dealing with it.
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
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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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When I was your age, television was called books.
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Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.
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When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
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Love is many things none of them logical.
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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
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Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?
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Nobody knows anything.
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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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 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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I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.
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Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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