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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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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
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Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.
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It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier.
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And when love is over when the diner of love seems closed from the outside you want all those hours back along with anything you left at the lover’s house and maybe a couple of things which aren’t technically yours on the grounds that you wasted a portion of your life and those hours have all gone southside.
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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.
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It is always tedious when someone tells you that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about, because if you are crying then you already have something to cry about, and so there is no reason for them to give you anything additional to cry about, thank you very much.
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I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.
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Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.
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Well-read people are less likely to be evil.
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Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.
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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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...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.
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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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...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.
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Members of your family might say they are working hard all day long, while you are off at school or clarinet lessons, but the only way to know this for sure is to follow them at a discreet distance.
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A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.
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If you have ever had a miserable experience, then you have probably had it said to you that you would feel better in the morning. This, of course, is utter nonsense, because a miserable experience remains a miserable experience even on the loveliest of morning.
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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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Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.
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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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Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.
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