William Goldman Quotes: You mock my pain! Life is pain, anyone…

You mock my pain! Life is pain, anyone who says otherwise is obviously selling something!

("The Princess Bride")

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I have always liked it, it is still my favorite book. I do not like my writing, but I like this book. . . . I wish I liked my own writing more, but like all of us, I am trapped inside my own skin.
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It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.
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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
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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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