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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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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
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Highland Park
Illinois
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We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
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Who says life is fair, where is that written?
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The enemy is always in the mind.
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I am your Prince and you will marry me, Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, I am your servant and I refuse. I am you Prince and you cannot refuse. I am your loyal servant and I just did. Refusal means death. Kill me then.
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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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Fool! cried the hunchback. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
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When I was your age, television was called books.
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Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
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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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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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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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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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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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I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.
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I’ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.
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At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.
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Who are you? No one of consequence. I must know. Get used to disappointment.
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It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
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