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Aaron would not come out
aaron entered into agony.

The chapters on whaling in MOBY DICK can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers.

So you think this is a trap then? the Count said. I think everything is a trap. which is why I am still alive. said the prince

Any experience is profitable if you allow it to be, all actions are profitable, no matter how badly you may suffer from them.

What with one thing and another, three years passed.

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it.

You miserable vomitous mass,

Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.

My Westley will come for me.

Be careful, this is the greatest fencer since the death of the Wizard of Corsica. Do not burgle.

The Sicilian's word was not just law, it was gospel.

Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.

I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more.

I know something you do not know. I am not left-handed either.

He didn't forget this either. He just didn't remember it in time. . . .

I only wish we could stay for his grief - it should be Homeric.

Isn't it awful what we'll do in this world to feel wanted?

If you write movies, you never know who the enemy is. Someone is going to fuck you, that's a given.

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.

You're an enemy of art and I pity your ignorance, Domingo said.

You seem a decent fellow," Inigo said. "I hate to kill you."
You seem a decent fellow," answered the man in black. "I hate to die.

You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that

Will you draw your sword with your free hand?"
"I already have. Will you make a fist with yours?"
"It's clenched.

When this is over we will see who is right, and who is dead.

Myself am often surprised at life's little quirks

What can I do to improve my personal appearance?" "Start by bathing," her father said.

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

How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic?

When I got discharged from the Army, I made a vow never to go back on an Army post. No big deal, just a simple lifelong vow.

Your father is dying."
"Drat!" said the Prince, "That means I shall have to get married.

A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite

Mawidge is a dweam wiffin a dweam.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all

When I was your age, television was called books.

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

Have fun storming the castle!

Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.

There is one crucial rule that must be followed in all creative meetings. Never speak first. At least at the start, your job is to shut up.

Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something.

I would describe her more as a knitter than a doer.

Why do you wear a mask and hood?"
I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.

I mean if we even had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.

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

And 5:25 when the screaming started outside the main gate.

If all that's going on in your scenes is what's going on in your scenes, think about it a long time.

I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that's never going to stop.

The Duchess set about studying Annette and shortly found her adversary's tragic flaw.
Chocolate.

We have more than hope," Buttercup said. "There is true love.

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

He had risked his life and now it was walking away from him, hand-in-hand with a Ruffian prince.

There were some things you did, no matter what, and when a friend needed help, you helped them.

The enemy is always in the mind.

Dummy, dummy, go out now and fill your tummy.

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.

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.

Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind.

Love is many things none of them logical.

Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all.

I don't have to tell you, once you get a corpse really caught up in conversation, your battle's half over.

Sonny, don't you tell me what's worthwhile
true love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. Everybody knows that.

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!

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

You can never trust what you read.

It's an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

He looked as much like Karl as Cuddles Sakall resembled Argentina Rocca.

We'll never survive!"
"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has.

One final silly face.
One blessed responding laugh.
Fezzik closed his eyes then, thinking only this: thank God I was a giant after all....

She was, through no real faults of her own, perfect.

But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

He always felt better when he could dole out pain alone.

The only way forward is to never look back.

Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something.

Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.

I write out of revenge.

One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.

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

That's all you need? Easy. I love you.Okay? Want it louder?I love you. Spell it out schould I l-o-v-e y-o-u. Want it backwards You love I.

Death of the heart,' the subtitle says, Whose death? And even more important maybe, whose heart?

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.

thereafter, the selfsame

You keep using that word!" the Spaniard snapped. "I don't think it means what you think it does.

There were stories that the King was dying, that he was already dead, that he had been dead long since, that he was fine.

What's the handle, Zock?

He was the mighty Fezzik, lover of rhymes, and you did not give up, no matter what.

The Serpent, to my interpretation, was pain.

We are one heartbeat," and she kissed him softly and said, "And will always be.

But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid - that had to mean something.

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

There's death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.

I got to belch my witch; she's done eating by now.

Some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn't Curious George Uses the Potty.

Wow, brains as well as boobs.

Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder.
At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

Don't come out all that well a lot of the time, but that can't be helped.

Buttercup's parents did not have exactly what you might call a happy marriage. All they ever dreamed of was leaving each other.