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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
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I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want us to be miserable.
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Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.
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Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
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Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.
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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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When you say, History is written by the winners, you like to think about someone who isn't you. You want to think, Oh, that's the juggernaut I'm standing against. But you're probably part of it.
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The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,” you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I mean is that I don’t think about them, because of the way you are.
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And then like a song we'd forgotten was even on the mix, you stepped into the house and my whole life.
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Santa Claus has nothing to do with it, the latke said. Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things. But different things can often blend together, said the pine tree. Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.
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There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.
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Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.
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A bolt from the blue.
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For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.
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Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.
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With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
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After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.
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Just about everybody has written a first novel that they throw away before writing their actual first novel.
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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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They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
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So every so often, when I meet someone who's honestly appalled by my books and doesn't understand why they would be attractive to people... I find such people sort of charming, even though they usually don't like me.
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