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All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.

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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
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My chauffer once told me that I would feel better in the morning, but when I woke up the two of us were still on a tiny island surrounded by man-eating crocodiles, and, as I'm sure you can understand, I didn't feel any better about it.
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The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.
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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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...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.
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Santa Claus has nothing to do with it, the latke said. Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things. But different things can often blend together, said the pine tree. Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.
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If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.
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Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.
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A mystery is solved with a story.
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In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
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The sad truth is the truth is sad.
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Never mind what my name is,” the man said. “No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.
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Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.
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Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.
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I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.
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The idea that the curtain rises on what is often more or less a happy scene, and it will fall just a few hours later, and everyone will be dead or have gone mad... I find that kind of narrative very appealing.
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Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies
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Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.
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Life isn't fair, he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.
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It was a curious feeling, that something could be so close and so distant at the same time.
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There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better to stain the napkin than your clothing. The other is that it can serve as a perfect hiding place. Practically nobody is nosey enough to take the napkin off a lap to see what is hidden there.
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