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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
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Screenwriter
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Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
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Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
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Enough about my beauty, Buttercup said. Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.
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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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If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
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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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You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.
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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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Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. The dweam of wuv wapped wiffin the gweater dweam of everwasting west. Eternity is our fwiend, wemember that, and wuv wiw fowwow you fowever.
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No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said.
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No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
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Liar! Liar! shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. Back, Witch-- he commanded. I'm not a witch, I'm your wife-- she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--
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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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