The Dread Pirate Roberts is a fictional character in the novel The Princess Bride and its film adaptation.
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“Backward and forward, eternity is the same; already we have been the nothing we dread to be.”
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He fired two bullets, but they didn’t hit,
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—Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1880–1941)