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You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said.

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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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Art
Domingo
Pity
Ignorance

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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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He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
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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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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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Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.
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A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
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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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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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True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.
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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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No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
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Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
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Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what? I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed.
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Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
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I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
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Who says life is fair, where is that written?
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There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
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