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William Goldman was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright.
* He was born in Highland Park, Illinois in 1931.
* He graduated from Oberlin College and Columbia University.
* He won two Academy Awards for his screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and All the President's Men (1976).
* He also wrote the novels The Princess Bride (1973) and Marathon Man (1974).
* He was a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
* He died in 2018 at the age of 87.
* He is considered one of the most successful and influential writers in Hollywood history.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

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Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

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Who says life is fair, where is that written?

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We’ll never survive! Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.

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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.

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Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

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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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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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True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

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Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?

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Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

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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.

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