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It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.

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William Goldman
Age: 87 †
Born: 1931
Born: August 12
Died: 2018
Died: November 16
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Highland Park
Illinois
S. Morgenstern
Harry Longbaugh
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Now what happens? asked the man in black. We face each other as God intended, Fezzik said. No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone. You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?
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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.
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As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.
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In Hollywood, no one knows anything.
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I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.
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We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.
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Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
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I write out of revenge.
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If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.
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Whoever invented the meeting must have had Hollywood in mind. I think they should consider giving Oscars for meetings: Best Meeting of the Year, Best Supporting Meeting, Best Meeting Based on Material from Another Meeting.
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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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Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.
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Get used to disappointment.
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Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
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