William Goldman Short Quotes

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

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Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life.

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Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.

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My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

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

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You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said.

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

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

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

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

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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

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This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

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

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I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that's never going to stop.

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There are always too few perfect breasts in this world; leave yours alone.

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Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

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You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

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I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.

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It's an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird.

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

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You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, and I think it quite ungentlemanly.

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The single most important fact, perhaps, of the entire movie industry: NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING.

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

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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.

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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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If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

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As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless — and absolutely essential.

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Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

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