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

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

William Goldman
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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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I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.''Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.

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The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.

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The Princess BrideS. Morgenstern'sClassic Tale of True Loveand High AdventureYou 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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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

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Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

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Funny thing- Morgenstern's folk's were named Max and Valerie and his father was a doctor.

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Screenplays are structure, and that’s all they are. The quality of writing—which is crucial in almost every other form of literature—is not what makes a screenplay work. Structure isn’t anything else but telling the story, starting as late as possible, starting each scene as late as possible. You don’t want to begin with “Once upon a time,” because the audience gets antsy.

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Love is many things, none of them logical.

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Give the reader what they want, just not the way they expect it.

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