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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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Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.
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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 are few sights sadder than a ruined book.
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There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.
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The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.
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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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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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In general, of course, a stranger who tries to get you into an automobile is anything but noble, and in general a person who quotes great American novelists is anything but treacherous, and in general a man who says you needn't worry about money, or a man who smokes cigarettes, is somewhere in between.
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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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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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A new experience can be extremely pleasurable, or extremely irritating, or somewhere in between, and you never know until you try it out.
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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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Every night I give a violin recital for six hours, and attendance is mandatory. The word 'mandatory' means that if you don't show up, you have to buy me a large bag of candy and watch me eat it.
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The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.
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There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.
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All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found
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You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so.
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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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