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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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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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The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.
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I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.
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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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There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
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Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.
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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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We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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You're alive! Fezzik cried. The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across.
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
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