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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

William Goldman

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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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He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.
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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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Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
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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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The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
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Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
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No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
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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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When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
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The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)
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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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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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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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The enemy is always in the mind.
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I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.
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There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.
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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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i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion i have not been happy dealing with it.
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He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
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