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I write storys to entertain not to be the best

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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
Accordionist
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Musician
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San Francisco County
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Lemony Snicket
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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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A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.
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who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.
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Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.
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I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.
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For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.
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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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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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In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.
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All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
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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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Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.
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For Beatrice- My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.
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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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Hup hup ha ha hammy hee hee!
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I will love you as the iceberg loves the ship, and the passengers love the lifeboat and the lifeboat loves the teeth of the sperm whale, and the sperm whale loves the flavor of naval uniforms.
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If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.
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I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.
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Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.
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