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We are men of action. Lies do not become us.
Westley -- William Goldman
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People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability. -- William Goldman
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Inigo looked at him. "You mean you'll forgive me completely for saving your life if I completely forgive you for saving mine?"
"You're my friend, my only one."
"Pathetic, that's what we are," Inigo said.
"Athletic. -- William Goldman
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Woman," Westley roared, "you are the property of the Dread Pirate Roberts and you ... do ... what ... you're ... told! -- William Goldman
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I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative."
"I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said.
"Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either. -- William Goldman
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True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. -- William Goldman
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Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that. -- William Goldman
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She fell fast and she fell hard, but what did that matter, since she would have gladly dropped a thousand feet onto a bed of nails if Westley had been waiting at the bottom. Down, -- William Goldman
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That's all you need? Easy. I love you.Okay? Want it louder?I love you. Spell it out schould I l-o-v-e y-o-u. Want it backwards You love I. -- William Goldman
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In the kitchen, Chub clung to the wall, made no sound whatsoever, but his mouth opened and closed, opened and closed, as he told himself, kept telling himself, that life was material, everything was material - you just had to live long enough to see how to use it. -- William Goldman
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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 afar, weak and warm and familiar. "As ... you ... wish ... -- William Goldman
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That was all he ever answered. "As you wish. -- William Goldman
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You're alive!" Fezzik cried.
The man in black sat immobile, like a ventriloquist's dummy, just his mouth moving. "That is perhaps the most childishly obvious remark I have ever come across ... -- William Goldman
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Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest ladies. Snakes. Spiders. Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Death. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles. -- William Goldman
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He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince. -- William Goldman
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At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder.
At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war. -- William Goldman
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Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor. -- William Goldman
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Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. -- William Goldman
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The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway? -- William Goldman
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Is this a kissing book? -- William Goldman
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly. -- William Goldman
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I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.'
'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing. -- William Goldman
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Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning. -- William Goldman
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Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today. -- William Goldman
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The Princess Bride
S. Morgenstern's
Classic Tale of True Love
and High Adventure
You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it. -- William Goldman
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Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation. -- William Goldman
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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high. -- William Goldman
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I got to belch my witch; she's done eating by now. -- William Goldman
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Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. -- William Goldman
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I write out of revenge. -- William Goldman
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I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. -- William Goldman
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It's an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird. -- William Goldman
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The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera. -- William Goldman
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The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.) -- William Goldman
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life. -- William Goldman
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Why do you wear a mask and hood?"
I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable. -- William Goldman
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You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it. -- William Goldman
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You miserable vomitous mass, -- William Goldman
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For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next. -- William Goldman
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The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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I could give you my word as a Spaniard," Inigo said.
"No good," the man in black replied. "I've known too many Spaniards. -- William Goldman
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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
-- William Goldman
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A little maybe; I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said, 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard, and you never heard.' ~ Westley -- William Goldman
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I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard. -- William Goldman
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She was, through no real faults of her own, perfect. -- William Goldman
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With any luck at all," he said, "we should soon be safely in the Fire Swamp. -- William Goldman
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You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it. -- William Goldman
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Nobody knows anything. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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Princess. By S. Morgenstern. It's a kids' classic. Tell him I'll quiz him on it when I'm back next week and that he doesn't have to like it or anything, but if he doesn't, tell him I'll kill myself. Give him that message exactly please; I wouldn't want to apply any extra pressure or anything. -- William Goldman
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Guess?" Vizzini cried. "I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess. -- William Goldman
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Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all. -- William Goldman
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You would never in this world have beaten him. But I tell you this: he would never in this world have beaten you. -- William Goldman
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I'll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it. -- William Goldman
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Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly, Westly,
darling Westly, adored Westly, sweet perfect Westly, whisper that I have a chance to win your love. And with that, she dared the bravest thing she'd ever done: she looked right into his eyes.
He closed the door in her face. -- William Goldman
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The infant is ten and he stays, -- William Goldman
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There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up. -- William Goldman
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And Inigo felt, for the first time since the dying, such happiness. It had fled from him, happiness, and when you spend years without, you forget that no blessing compares ... -- William Goldman
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It must have been fifty seconds before Doc died.
Long time. -- William Goldman
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When I got discharged from the Army, I made a vow never to go back on an Army post. No big deal, just a simple lifelong vow. -- William Goldman
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Have fun storming the castle! -- William Goldman
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Be careful, this is the greatest fencer since the death of the Wizard of Corsica. Do not burgle. -- William Goldman
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You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony. -- William Goldman
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I am not a planner. I follow. Tell me what to do and no man alive does it better. But my mind is like fine wine; it travels badly. -- William Goldman
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The enemy is always in the mind. -- William Goldman
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Will you draw your sword with your free hand?"
"I already have. Will you make a fist with yours?"
"It's clenched. -- William Goldman
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Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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Westley, my passion, my sweet, my only, my own. Come back, come back. I shall kill myself otherwise. Yours in torment, Buttercup." She looked at Humperdinck. "Well? Do you think I'm throwing myself at him?"
"It does seem a bit forward," the Prince admitted. -- William Goldman
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Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches. -- William Goldman
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There was no denying the fact that there was a certain excitement in the air. -- William Goldman
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As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential. -- William Goldman
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Your father is dying."
"Drat!" said the Prince, "That means I shall have to get married. -- William Goldman
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Get used to disappointment. -- William Goldman
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Myself am often surprised at life's little quirks -- William Goldman
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When I was your age, television was called books. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C ... (before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy ... Well, this one left them all behind. -- William Goldman
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(This was long after hairdressers; in truth, ever since there have been women, there have been hairdressers, Adam being the first, though the King James scholars do their very best to muddy this point.) -- William Goldman
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I'm not about to argue with a full professor, but if you ever have a really unbreakable case of insomnia, do yourself a favor and start reading Chapter Three of the uncut version. -- William Goldman
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She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering. She -- William Goldman
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The Count was Prince Humperdink's only confidant. His last name was Rugen, but no one needed to use it - he was the only Count in the country, the title having been bestowed by the Prince as a birthday present some years before, the happening taking place, naturally, at one of the Countess' parties. -- William Goldman
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What with one thing and another, three years passed. -- William Goldman
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There were stories that the King was dying, that he was already dead, that he had been dead long since, that he was fine. -- William Goldman
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There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone. -- William Goldman
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It's not important, believe me; the past has a way of being past. -- William Goldman
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Look, are you just fiddling around with me or what?"
"I just want you to feel you're doing well. I hate for people o die embarrassed. -- William Goldman
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You always know what to do, you always know exactly what to do, you always do exactly what's right for you, and the rest of the world can go hang.. -- William Goldman
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Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while. -- William Goldman
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The only way forward is to never look back. -- William Goldman
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Some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn't Curious George Uses the Potty. -- William Goldman
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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. -- William Goldman
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Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup. -- William Goldman
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Any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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When this is over we will see who is right, and who is dead. -- William Goldman
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Death of the heart,' the subtitle says, Whose death? And even more important maybe, whose heart? -- William Goldman
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Well, why didn't you list that among our assets in the first place? -- William Goldman
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In Hollywood, no one knows anything. -- William Goldman
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Someone would have to keep his wits, and he had assumed automatically that since Fezzik had so few, he would find retaining them not all that difficult. -- William Goldman
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And 5:25 when the screaming started outside the main gate. -- William Goldman
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You have a dizzying intellect. -- William Goldman
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We have more than hope," Buttercup said. "There is true love. -- William Goldman
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Cynics are simply thwarted romantics. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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Isn't it awful what we'll do in this world to feel wanted? -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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Fezzik's in trouble, bubble bubble,
His brain is just not in the pink,
His mind is rubble, rub-a-dub double,
Because everyone needs him to think. -- William Goldman
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Who are you?"
"No one of consequence."
"I must know."
"Get used to disappointment. -- William Goldman
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If you write movies, you never know who the enemy is. Someone is going to fuck you, that's a given. -- William Goldman
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Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all -- William Goldman
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There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them. -- William Goldman
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Let me get this thing straight, Inigo
we had SCRAPS for dinner? I'M in YOUR fantasy and the best you can come up with is SCRAPS?" She turned toward the door then. "You have no chance of winning my heart. -- William Goldman
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You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said. -- William Goldman
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I would describe her more as a knitter than a doer. -- William Goldman
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Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something. -- William Goldman
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The Sicilian's word was not just law, it was gospel. -- William Goldman
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No one could be following us yet?" the Spaniard asked. "No one," the Sicilian assured him. "It would be inconceivable." "Absolutely inconceivable?" "Absolutely, totally, and, in all other ways, inconceivable," the Sicilian reassured him. "Why do you ask? -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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We'll never survive!"
"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has. -- William Goldman
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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.) -- William Goldman
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Buttercup's parents did not have exactly what you might call a happy marriage. All they ever dreamed of was leaving each other. -- William Goldman
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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? -- William Goldman
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You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death. -- William Goldman
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Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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He always felt better when he could dole out pain alone. -- William Goldman
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian. -- William Goldman
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I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something. -- William Goldman
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But my mind is like a thin line; it travels badly. I go from thought to thought but not with logic, and I forget things [ ... ] -- William Goldman
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Is he really so wonderful, this Westley of yours?"
"Not so much wonderful as perfect," she replied. "Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side. -- William Goldman
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Your love holds you for the first time in his arms and you think, How perfect, how splendid, but then, when your love isn't your love any more, you think only, I let him touch me, how horrid, how vile. -- William Goldman
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There's death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it. -- William Goldman
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Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something. -- William Goldman
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I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts, but you can call me 'Weasley. -- William Goldman
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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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We are one heartbeat," and she kissed him softly and said, "And will always be. -- William Goldman
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thereafter, the selfsame -- William Goldman
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When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it. -- William Goldman
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What can I do to improve my personal appearance?" "Start by bathing," her father said. -- William Goldman
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The chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers. -- William Goldman
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Who says life is fair, where is that written? -- William Goldman
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What are you so afraid oft"
Fezzik raised his great head and managed to look at them. "Getting water up my nose," he whispered. "I hate it so much." And then he buried his head again. -- William Goldman
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How could someone care if she were the most beautiful woman in the world or not. What difference could it have made if you were only the third most beautiful. Or the sixth. -- William Goldman
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He looked as much like Karl as Cuddles Sakall resembled Argentina Rocca. -- William Goldman
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He would find the six-fingered man. He would go up to him. He would say simply, "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die," and then, oh then, the duel. -- William Goldman
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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print. -- William Goldman
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This was not before doctors, but in Turkey they hadn't gotten around to claiming the bone business yet; milkmen still were in charge of bones, the logic being that since milk was so good for bones, who would know more about borken bones than a milkman? -- William Goldman
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I don't have to tell you, once you get a corpse really caught up in conversation, your battle's half over. -- William Goldman
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I WANT DOMINGO MONTOYA YOU SON OF A BITCH! -- William Goldman
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Not so much wonderful as perfect," she replied. "Kind of flawless. More or less magnificent. Without blemish. Rather on the ideal side." She looked at the Prince. "Am I being helpful?"
"I -- William Goldman
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So you think this is a trap then? the Count said. I think everything is a trap. which is why I am still alive. said the prince -- William Goldman
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You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked.
"I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive. -- William Goldman
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God grant you your quota of smiles. -- William Goldman
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Aaron would not come out
aaron entered into agony. -- William Goldman
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There is no room in my body for anything but you. -- William Goldman
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No more rhymes now I mean it!" "Anybody want a peanut?" "AAHH! -- William Goldman
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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die! -- William Goldman
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something. -- William Goldman
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Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told. -- William Goldman
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She does not get eaten by the sharks at this time," my father said. I looked up at him. "What?" "You looked like you were getting too involved and bothered so I thought I would let you relax. -- William Goldman
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You mock my pain! Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is obviously selling something! -- William Goldman
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You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you."
You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die. -- William Goldman
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I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I. -- William Goldman
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Westley: This is true love - you think this happens every day? -- William Goldman
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Love is many things none of them logical. -- William Goldman
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Buttercup sat up in bed. It must be his teeth. The farm boy did have good teeth, give credit where credit was due. -- William Goldman
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This was after stew. But then, so is everything. When the first man crawled out of the slime and went to make his home on land, what he had for dinner that night was stew. -- William Goldman
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You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. [ Inigo Montoya ] -- William Goldman
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If you do not kiss my mouth, Inigo Montoya of Spain, I will more than likely die. -- William Goldman
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Inigo Montoya: He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using. -- William Goldman
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The main thing was to know the world, every twenty-five years or so, back for a couple hundred years, and if you had that info handy, always there under your belt, then you could figure out the gaps. -- William Goldman
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Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy. -- William Goldman
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Later, years later even, sometimes I might say, "How about the duel on the cliff with Inigo and the man in black?" and my father would gruff and grumble and get the book and lick his thumb, turning pages till the mighty battle began. -- William Goldman
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Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw.
Chocolate. -- William Goldman
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Can you guess what I'm doing?"
"Cutting my heart out."
"You took mine when I was ten; I want yours now. We are lovers of justice, you and I - what could be more just than that? -- William Goldman
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The easiest thing to do on earth is not write. -- William Goldman
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One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to think they know what they're doing, and the minute that happens, it's over. -- William Goldman
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Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do. -- William Goldman
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You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me. -- William Goldman
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It was 5.48, and she knew that she would never die. -- William Goldman
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Wow, brains as well as boobs. -- William Goldman
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That explains it." Actually, of course, it didn't explain anything, but whenever doctors are confused about something, which is really more frequently than any of us would do well to think about, they always snatch at something in the vicinity of the case and add, "That explains it. -- William Goldman
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Butch: Now after we ... wait a minute ...
Sundance: What?
Butch: You didn't see Lefors out there?
Sundance: Lefors ? No.
Butch: Good. For a minute there I thought we were in trouble. -- William Goldman
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You can never trust what you read. -- William Goldman
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If there's ever a question about anything, you can always count on me to get it wrong. -- William Goldman
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My Westley will come for me. -- William Goldman
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One final silly face.
One blessed responding laugh.
Fezzik closed his eyes then, thinking only this: thank God I was a giant after all.... -- William Goldman
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Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are. -- William Goldman
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He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what. -- William Goldman
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Life is difficult.
Anyone who says different is
trying to sell you something. -- William Goldman
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Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind. -- William Goldman
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Who can know when his world is going to change? who can tell before it happens ... the doors that were slamming shut while others slid into the clear.Who can sense revelation in the wind? What happened was just this :I got hooked on the story. -- William Goldman
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Her mother was my wife," the Count roared, loudest of all. "You pathetic excuse for am money-grubbing fool, you disgrace to the face of the world." And with a shriek of disgust he turned and was gone.
Guilietta was beside Inigo then, so excited. "Daddy likes you," she said. -- William Goldman
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I'm not witch. I'm your wife. -- William Goldman
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Why was it worth so much of your life?" "Because I could not fail him again." "Fail who?" "My father. -- William Goldman
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A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite -- William Goldman
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I only wish we could stay for his grief - it should be Homeric. -- William Goldman
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The sun was rising behind her now; she could feel the heat on her back, and it gave her courage. -- William Goldman
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I can live without love. And with that she left Westley alone. -- William Goldman
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Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle.
Valerie: Think it'll work?
Miracle Max: It would take a miracle. -- William Goldman
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What's the handle, Zock? -- William Goldman
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Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.) -- William Goldman
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I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that's never going to stop. -- William Goldman
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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. -- William Goldman
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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 -- William Goldman
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But this is life on earth, you can't have everything. -- William Goldman
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The only actual change that had come over him in the past years was that, for some reason, his impediment had gotten worse. "Mawidge," he said. "Vewy old. -- William Goldman
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You keep using that word!" the Spaniard snapped. "I don't think it means what you think it does. -- William Goldman
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The new doctors all agreed on various tried-and-true medications, and within forty-eight hours of their coming on the case, the King was dead. -- William Goldman
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He didn't forget this either. He just didn't remember it in time. . . . -- William Goldman
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I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either. -- William Goldman
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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it. -- William Goldman
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Don't come out all that well a lot of the time, but that can't be helped. -- William Goldman
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You're certainly blooming, Billy. Before my very eyes. I just don't know into what. -- William Goldman
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You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there.
(Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.) -- William Goldman
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How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic? -- William Goldman
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I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative."br>"I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said.br>"Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either. -- William Goldman