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Inconceivable!"
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. (William Goldman)

I am your Prince and you will marry me," Humperdinck said. Buttercup whispered, "I am your servant and I refuse." "I am you Prince and you cannot refuse." "I am your loyal servant and I just did." "Refusal means death." "Kill me then.

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The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love you. Like that.)

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

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I don't like killing a girl," the Spaniard said. "God does it all the time; if it doesn't bother Him, don't let it worry you.

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Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)

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Let's look on the bright side: we're having an adventure, Fezzik, and most people live and die without being as lucky as we are.

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

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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... (William Goldman)

Nobody knows anything.

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No more rhymes now I mean it!” "Anybody want a peanut?” "AAHH!

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

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Have fun storming the castle!

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

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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.

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Look. (Grown-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 was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.

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

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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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My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die! (William Goldman)

Who says life is fair, where is that written?

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Love is many things none of them logical.

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

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

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: August 12, 1931
Died: November 16, 2018
Quotes count: 103

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