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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.
Daniel Handler
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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
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Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.
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This is love, and the trouble with it: it can make you embarrassed. Love is really liking someone a whole lot and not wanting to screw that up. Everybody's chewed over this. This unites us, this part of love.
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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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If you are a student you should always get a good nights sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside, a phrase which means 'flunk'.
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I liked, I admit, that we didn’t pretend there hadn’t been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school, like they came free with a backpack.
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When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people.
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It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs
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I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.
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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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The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.
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Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.
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