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Like a lot of people whose children were small in the 2000s, I read [Daniel Handler] books out loud and I loved them.
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Daniel Handler
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: February 28
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Lemony Snicket
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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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But it's far too late for us ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.
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Nobody wants to hear that you will try your best. It is the wrong thing to say. It is like saying 'I probably won't hit you with a shovel.' Suddenly everyone is afraid you will do the opposite.
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Every last souvenir of the love we had, the prizes & the debris of this relationship, like the glitter in the gutter when the parade has passed, all the everything & whatnot kicked to the curb.
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A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult. In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.
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For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.
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I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.
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I'm sure you have heard it said that appearance does not matter so much, and that it is what's on the inside that counts. This is, of course, utter nonsense, because if it were true then people who were good on this inside would would never have to comb their hair or take a bath, and the whole world would smell even worse than it already does.
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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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Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.
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Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know.
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There is a pair of snakes who have learned to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and never stop to apologize.
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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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Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
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How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn’t know how to do such things.” “My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.
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There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.
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We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.
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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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It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.
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One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
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