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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

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
Difficult
Different
Trying
Something
Life
Sell
Sells
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Anyone

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Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
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I don't like killing a girl, the Spaniard said. God does it all the time if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.
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I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.
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I love you,” Buttercup said. “I know this must come as something of a surprise, since all I’ve ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.
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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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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
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There is no room in my body for anything but you.
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.
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I understand everything,” he said. “You understand nothing, but it really doesn’t matter, since what you mean is, you’re glad to see me, just as I’m glad to see you because no more loneliness.” “That’s what I mean,” said Fezzik.
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The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
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I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.
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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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I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.
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Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.
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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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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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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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