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“Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.”
-- William Goldman

#Wall #Princess #Heart
“Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.”
-- William Goldman

#Love #Beach #Soulmate
“Weâ€™ll never survive!â€ â€œNonsense. Youâ€™re only saying that because no one ever has.”
-- William Goldman

#Optimism #Doubt #Nonsense
“Love is many things none of them logical.”
-- William Goldman

#Love #Love Is #Logical
“True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.”
-- William Goldman

#True Love #Sweet Love #Healing
“When I was your age, television was called books.”
-- William Goldman

#Book #Age #Television
“He held up a book then. â€œI'm going to read it to you for relax.â€ â€œDoes it have any sports in it?â€ â€œFencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles.â€ â€œSounds okay,â€ I said and I kind of closed my eyes.”
-- William Goldman

#Sports #Pain #Revenge
“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
“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.”
-- William Goldman

#Book #Mean #Lasts
“Westley closed his eyes. There was pain coming and he had to be ready for it. He had to prepare his brain, he had to get his mind controlled and safe from their efforts, so that they could not break him. He would not let them break him. He would hold together against anything and all. If only they gave him sufficient time to make ready, he knew he could defeat pain. It turned out they gave him sufficient time (it was months before the Machine was ready). But they broke him anyway.”
-- William Goldman

#Pain #Eye #Effort
“People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.”
-- William Goldman

#Memories #Lying #People
“Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.”
-- William Goldman

#Writing #Ideas #Dancing
“Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”
-- William Goldman

#Life #Sad #Death
“Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.”
-- William Goldman

#Delay
“The enemy is always in the mind.”
-- William Goldman

#Mind #Enemy
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.”
-- William Goldman

#Life #Pain #Selling
“Iâ€™ll tell you the truth and its up to you to live with it.”
-- William Goldman
“Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.”
-- William Goldman
“And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.”
-- William Goldman

#Life #Children #Lying
“Who says life is fair, where is that written?”
-- William Goldman

#Life Is
“In Hollywood, no one knows anything.”
-- William Goldman

#Hollywood
“This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.”
-- William Goldman

#Book #World #My Favorite
“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.)”
-- William Goldman

#People #Rude #Want
“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...”
-- William Goldman

#New York #Father #Book
“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
“Thereâ€™s death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.”
-- William Goldman

#People #Ready
“I don't guess. I think. I ponder. I deduce. Then I decide. But I never guess.”
-- William Goldman

#Thinking #Pondering
“Have fun storming the castle!”
-- William Goldman

#Fun #Having Fun #Castles
“There is no room in my body for anything but you.”
-- William Goldman

#Body #Rooms
“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

#Track #Break #Thousand

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