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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
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We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.
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Grief, a type of sadness that most often occurs when you have lost someone you love, is a sneaky thing, because it can disappear for a long time, and then pop back up when you least expect it.
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I think I’ve always believed that there is one person in the universe who you’re truly meant for–for whom you are truly meant–and the fact that sometimes there are two or even more people on the earth you can fall in love with really bothers me. It suggests that if you work hard you can be meant for anyone.
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It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.
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I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear.
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Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.
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When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?
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-Most people would say that she's beautiful. -That's because she's been with most people.
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For Beatrice- My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.
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Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.
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The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.
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Are you ready? Klaus asked finally. No, Sunny answered. Me neither, Violet said, but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.
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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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Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
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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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It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.
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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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I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.
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Sometimes words are not enough.
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It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
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