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Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.
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
Playwright
Broadway
Failed
Shows
Three
Time
Flopped
Fled
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Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
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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 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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Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
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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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We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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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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I write out of revenge.
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I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
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It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
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