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“My Westley will come for me.”

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William Goldman is an American novelist born on August 12, 1931. His works are known for their humor, wit, and profound social insight, with notable titles including 'The Maltese Falcon' and 'The Shawshank Redemption'. more

“DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.”

Knows Mind Kind Doe Self Feelings Destiny About Yourself Fragile

Book:The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966

Source: The Bob Dylan scrapbook: 1956-1966

“We had played a kid's version of gang fighting called "Civil War," and then later we had got in on the real thing, we fought with chains and we fought barefisted and we fought Socs and we fought other grease gangs. It was a normal childhood.”

War Real Kids Fighting Childhood Normal Versions Chains Civil War Gang Real Things Grease Socs

Book:That Was Then, This Is Now

Source: That Was Then, This Is Now

“The difference is that was then, this is now.”

Differences

Author:S. E. Hinton

“State ownership! It leads only to absurd and monstrous conclusions; state ownership means state monopoly, concentrated in the hands of one party and its adherents, and that state brings only ruin and bankruptcy to all.”

Mean States Hands Party Absurd Conclusion Ruins Ownership Monopoly Monstrous Bankruptcy

Author:Benito Mussolini

“It reminded me of a meat grinder. From when I was a kid. Going to school it felt like you were in a meat grinder. It chews you up and pours out this mess that can't function”

Kids School Felt Like You Function Mess Meat Grinder

Author:Gerard Way

“That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman.”

Ifs Men Love Winning Tongue Memorable Wooing

Book:The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings

“I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”

People Knows Humans Faith Belief Support Evidence Core Skepticism Human History Core Beliefs

Book:Letter to a Christian Nation

Source: Letter to a Christian Nation

“I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.”

Thinking Littles Ill Asylums Mentally Ill

Book:Danse Macabre

Source: Danse Macabre

“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”

Sin Conscience Vanity Vain Sinner

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)

Quote by William Goldman

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