"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
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"Nobody knows anything."
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"Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line."
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"Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line."
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"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high."
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"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."
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"Never get involved in a land war in Asia."
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"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."
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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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"Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one."
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"A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite"
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"Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited."
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"Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that."
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"True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops."
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""We’ll never survive!” “Nonsense. You’re only saying that because no one ever has.""
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"It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy, even the normal ones are weird."
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"One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it."
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"Love is many things none of them logical."
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"He held up a book then. “I'm going to read it to you for relax.” “Does it have any sports in it?” “Fencing. 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.” “Sounds okay,” I said and I kind of closed my eyes."
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"When I was your age, television was called books."
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