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• Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

  William Goldman

  Romantic, Movie Love, Delay

  "Fictional character: Westley". "The Princess Bride", 1987.

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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

  Thinking, Careers, People

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• You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

  William Goldman

  Agony

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.161, A&C Black

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• There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Kissing, Discovery

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.48, A&C Black

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• Love is many things none of them logical.

  William Goldman

  Love, Logical, Princess Bride

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

  William Goldman

  Life, Pain, Selling

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• The enemy is always in the mind.

  William Goldman

  Mind, Enemy

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me.

  William Goldman

  Father, Insult, Wonderful

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Existence was really very simple when you did what you were told.

  William Goldman

  Simple, Existence

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.144, A&C Black

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• Good night, Westley. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely kill you in the morning.

  William Goldman

  Romantic, Good Night, Goodnight

  William Goldman (1995). “William Goldman: Four Screenplays with Essays”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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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.

  William Goldman

  Beautiful, Mind, Enough

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.126, A&C Black

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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

  Love You, Boys, Long

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no room in my body for anything but you.

  William Goldman

  Body, Rooms, Buttercup

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.44, A&C Black

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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

  Work, Thinking, Years

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• No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

  William Goldman

  Dream, Art, Lucky

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.84, A&C Black

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• Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. If this is true, or if you are one of the people who believe this is true, then the one universal way to enjoy life is still the same, which is to learn to be grateful that it is not worse!!

  William Goldman

  Gratitude, Pain, Believe

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• He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.

  William Goldman

  Giving Up, Matter, Lovers

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.111, A&C Black

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• He's right on top of us. I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using.

  William Goldman

  Wind, Wonder, Princess Bride

  "Fictional character: Inigo Montoya". "The Princess Bride", www.imdb.com. September 18, 1987.

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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

  Mother, Daddy, Wife

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.253, A&C Black

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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

  Love You, Want, Ells

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.47, A&C Black

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• She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.

  William Goldman

  Couple, Love You, Loss

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.286, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

  Emotion, Cold, Affair

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.119, A&C Black

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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 far, weak and warm and familiar. "As...you...wish..."

  William Goldman

  Men, Black, Wish

  "The Princess Bride". Book by William Goldman, 1973.

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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

  Morning, Sorry, Feelings

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

  Thinking, Hunting, Track

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.176, A&C Black

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