William Goldman Quotes
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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.
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Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
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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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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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Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.
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I can't keep my head above water one minute to the next: it's not just the parties and the goo-gooing with what's-her-name, I've got the decide how long the Five Hundredth Anniversary Parade is going to be and where does it start and when does it start and which nobleman gets to march in front of which other nobleman so that everyone's still speaking to me at the end of it, plus I've got a wife to murder and a country to frame for it, plus I've got to get the war going once that's all happened, and all this is stuff I've got to do myself. Here's what it all comes down to: I'm just swamped, Ty.
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I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.
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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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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.)
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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.
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Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.
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Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list. It was a very long and very green night.
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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
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The infant is ten and he stays.
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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
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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.
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When I was your age, television was called books.
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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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Love is many things none of them logical.
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I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
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It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.
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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.
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There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.