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You can never trust what you read.

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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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Inconceivable! You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Love is many things none of them logical.
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Get used to disappointment.
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The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
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There’s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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Who says life is fair, where is that written?
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Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.
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Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
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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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Liar! Liar! shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. Back, Witch-- he commanded. I'm not a witch, I'm your wife-- she was advancing on him now, an ancient tiny fury--and after what you've just done I don't think I want to be that any more--
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I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.
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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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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
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And what have I done? What? WHAT?...You've stolen them. With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood she knew who them was. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.
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I just know once you're over your emotional outbursts, you'll come up with-' I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something,' Westley said.
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My Westley will come for me.
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Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.
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I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.
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