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There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.

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

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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.

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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.

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Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.

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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?

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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—

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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.

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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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