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Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
Daniel Handler
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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
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San Francisco County
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Lemony Snicket
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Never mind what my name is,” the man said. “No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.
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It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world
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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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To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After a few minutes we’d stop rattling, we’d adjust, we’d settle in, and the conversation would speed into the night.
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The way that the stories go in the Snicket books is just the way stories naturally go to me. They're full of misery, and yet the misery ends up being slightly hilarious. And in terms of the warnings on the back of the books, that really started as an honest assessment of their marketability.
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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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Dumping you times infinity. Still not enough.
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Temper tantrums, however fun they may be to throw, rarely solve whatever problem is causing them.
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Hup hup ha ha hammy hee hee!
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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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