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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
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Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
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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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Who are you? No one of consequence. I must know. Get used to disappointment.
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And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.
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My Westley will come for me.
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.
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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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You have a dizzying intellect.
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No more rhymes now I mean it!” “Anybody want a peanut?” “AAHH!
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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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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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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
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He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.
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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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