“Look. (Grown-ups skip this paragraph) I'm not about to tell you this book has a tragic ending. I already said in the very first line how it was my favorite in all the world. But there's a lot of bad stuff coming.”

— William Goldman, book The Princess Bride

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American novelist, screenwriter and playwright 1931–2018

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