"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something."
"Being a screenwriter is not enough for a full creative life."
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Source: William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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