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Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
William Goldman -
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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I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.
William Goldman -
Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.
William Goldman -
Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.
William Goldman -
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 -
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 -
Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.
William Goldman
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Love is many things none of them logical.
William Goldman -
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 -
The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.
William Goldman -
Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
William Goldman -
Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.
William Goldman -
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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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 -
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 -
He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
William Goldman -
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 -
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 -
As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential.
William Goldman
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Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.
William Goldman -
Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.
William Goldman -
My Westley will come for me.
William Goldman -
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