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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 ..
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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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I can't keep my head above water one minute to the next: it's not just the parties and the goo-gooing with what's-her-name, I've got the decide how long the Five Hundredth Anniversary Parade is going to be and where does it start and when does it start and which nobleman gets to march in front of which other nobleman so that everyone's still speaking to me at the end of it, plus I've got a wife to murder and a country to frame for it, plus ..
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He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.
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I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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life
love
wise-last-chapter
fairness
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Westley: Hear this now: I will always come for you. Buttercup: But how can you be sure? Westley: This is true love-you think this happens every day? Westley: I told you I would always come for you. Why didn't you wait for me? Buttercup: Well...you were dead. Westley: Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.
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William Goldman |
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Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.
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William Goldman |
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The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw. Chocolate.
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William Goldman |
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Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.
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inspirational-quotes
life-lessons
true-to-life
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Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.
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But just as he knew the sun was obliged to rise each morning in the east, no matter how much a western arisal might have pleased it, so he knew that Buttercup was obliged to spend her love on him. Gold was inviting, and so was royalty, but they could not match the fever in his heart, and sooner or later she would have to catch it. She had less choice than the sun.
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I'm not witch. I'm your wife.
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Inigo corners Count Rugen, knocks his sword aside, and slashes his cheek, giving him a scar just like Inigo's] Inigo Montoya: Offer me money. Count Rugen: Yes! Inigo Montoya: Power, too, promise me that. [He slashes his other cheek] Count Rugen: All that I have and more. Please... Inigo Montoya: Offer me anything I ask for. Count Rugen: Anything you want... [Rugen knocks Inigo's sword aside and lunges. But Inigo traps his arm and ai..
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I must learn.
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William Goldman |
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The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)
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fiction
timelines
taste
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You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.)
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people
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William Goldman |
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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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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.
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rhymes
morgenstern
panic
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William Goldman |
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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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William Goldman |
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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.
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funny
high-expectations
william-goldman
narrative
authors
princess-bride
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Flaws would not only bring death but, far worse, humiliation.
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inigo
william-goldman
the-princess-bride
humiliation
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William Goldman |
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This was after stew. But then, so is everything. When the first man crawled out of the slime and went to make his home on land, what he had for dinner that night was stew.
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stew
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William Goldman |
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There's death coming up, and you better understand this: some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it.
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William Goldman |
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Miracle Max: Have fun stormin' da castle. Valerie: Think it'll work? Miracle Max: It would take a miracle.
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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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But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.
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William Goldman |
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I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
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revenge
princess-bride
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Chapter One. The Bride." He held up the book then. "I'm reading it to you for relax." He practically shoved the book in my face. "By S. Morgenstern. Great Florinese writer. The Princess Bride. He too came to America. S. Morgenstern. Dead now in New York. The English is his own. He spoke eight tongues." Here my father put down the book and held up all his fingers. "Eight. Once in Florin City..."
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William Goldman |
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But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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I suppose I was dying again, so I asked the Lord of Permanent Affection for the strength to live the day. Clearly, the answer came in the affirmative." "I didn't know there was such a Fellow," Buttercup said. "Neither did I, in truth, but if He didn't exist, I didn't much want to either."
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You are wonderful, Father.""I'm more than wonderful, how dare you insult me."
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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..."
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fezzik
no-duh
the-man-in-black
weasly
revival
obvious
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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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William Goldman |
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I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that's never going to stop.
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William Goldman |
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There is no room in my body for anything but you.
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William Goldman |
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My heart was now a secret garden and the walls were very high.
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William Goldman |
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At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.
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war
humor
the-princess-bride
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We are men of action. Lies do not become us. -- Westley
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William Goldman |
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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."
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William Goldman |
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Ahora bien, tambien debo decir, por enesima vez, que la vida no es justa. Solo es mas justa que la muerte. Eso es todo.
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William Goldman |
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You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance," Domingo said."
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William Goldman |
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Look. (Grow-ups skip this paragraph.) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it is my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming up, torture you've already been prepared for, but there's worse. There's death coming up, and you better understand this: Some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn't Curious George Uses the Potty. Nobody warned me and i..
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One thing you know when you're ten is that no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.
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William Goldman |
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It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.
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