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“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
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― Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

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― The Last Continent

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― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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― Where the Sidewalk Ends

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