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Daniel Handler
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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
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I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises of various people.
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Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.
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When I was researching my very first novel, The Basic Eight, I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them to mail me their material so that I could mock them in my novels.
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There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.
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Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they used to be, I can admit, part of something beautiful.
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My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.
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And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.
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Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
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I’m not a cuckoo, either. I’m a fool is what.
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We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them.
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This toast feels raw. Is it safe to eat raw toast?
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With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
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I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.
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There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.
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Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.
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There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.
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The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing” is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know, about something that is happening very close to them. For instance, you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.
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If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.
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...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.
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...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why we stayed together
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