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Put your hair up, Min. The secret ingredient is not your hair.

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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
Accordionist
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San Francisco County
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Lemony Snicket
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I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the accordion and no one else does, I end up doing strange things.
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If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.
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It is terribly rude to tell people that their troubles are boring.
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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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We are all told to ignore bullies. It's something they teach you, and they can teach you anything. It doesn't mean you learn it. It doesn't mean you believe it. One should never ignore bullies. One should stop them.
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And then of course the music sprang up, lousy rock as bold and dull as a giant potato. Love this song, Todd said, like it was unusually brave to like what was number one on the radio.
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We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.
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Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.
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I have a dream of what would have happened if what happened instead hadn't.
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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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The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.
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Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.
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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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Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
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There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.
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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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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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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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I do what I do, I said, in order to do something else.
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We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.
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