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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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Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?
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I guess the most amazing thing about crying though is that when you're in it, you think it'll go on forever but it never really lasts half what you think. Not in terms of real time. In terms of real emotions, it's worse than you think, but not by the clock.
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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
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I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I.
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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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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
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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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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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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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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
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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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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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I don't like killing a girl, the Spaniard said. God does it all the time if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.
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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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The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.
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Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.
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Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
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The infant is ten and he stays.
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I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
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