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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

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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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Books
Dies
Littles
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Her mother was my wife, the Count roared, loudest of all. You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world. And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone. Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. Daddy likes you, she said.
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Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
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While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. [...] Down went the man in black. [...] You can die too for all I care, she said, and then she turned away. Words followed her. Whispered from far, weak and warm and familiar. As...you...wish...
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The boys. The village boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clodpated dimdomed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?
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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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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
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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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Have fun storming the castle!
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Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
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Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.
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There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.
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For you see each day I love you more today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
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I write out of revenge.
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In Hollywood, no one knows anything.
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Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)
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Nobody knows anything.
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
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