“I've been saying it so long to you, you just wouldn't listen. Every time you said 'Farm Boy do this' you thought I was answering 'As you wish' but that's only because you were hearing wrong. 'I love you' was what it was, but you never heard.”

— William Goldman, book The Princess Bride

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American novelist, screenwriter and playwright 1931–2018

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