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


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Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.



Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.





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.

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.



Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.



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

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



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.

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.



Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.



Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

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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Racism in impenetrable. Staying in America means always fighting. For our own sanity and safety, we must go.

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Don't waste your time to appease people who have already stumbled in you because of what you stand for. Respect their decision & move on...

Don't waste your time to appease people who have already stumbled in you because of what you stand for. Respect their decision & move on...



If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

If your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.



I feel like girls always deserve flowers; it's just a nice thing to do. If you want to make your girlfriend smile, send her flowers!

I feel like girls always deserve flowers; it's just a nice thing to do. If you want to make your girlfriend smile, send her flowers!



He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.

He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches, has his heaven here on earth.



Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.



I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.

I want to be positive and say: everything I've written will get made eventually.



Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

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