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You are wonderful, Father.I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.

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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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Wonderful
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No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
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I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
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There are always too few perfect breasts in this world leave yours alone.
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When I left you, you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.
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