Daniel Handler Quotes - Page 6

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• Count Olaf certainly does sound evil. Imagine forcing children to stand near a stove!

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  Children, Evil, Sound

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• Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

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  Plans, Accidents, Ifs

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• Of course I'm trying to trick you! That's the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

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  Running, Secret, Trying

  "The End". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

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  Children, Real, Struggle

  "The Carnivorous Carnival". Book by Daniel Handler, 2002.

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• You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

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  Princess, Jealous, Dancing

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• It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.

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  Song, Coffee, Kids

  "Why We Broke Up". Book by Daniel Handler, December, 2011.

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• Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

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  Chance, Broke Up, Boxes

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.42, Egmont UK

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• Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.

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  Land, Strange

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.58, Egmont UK

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• For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

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  Mets, Series Of Unfortunate Events

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• Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

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  Circles, People, Doe

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• I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

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  Relationship, Movie, I Miss You

  "The Beatrice Letters". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

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  Writing, Math, Epic

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• I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time, for example, and not like it at all, but after looking at it a little longer you may find it very pleasing. The first time you try Gorgonzola cheese you may find it too strong, but when you are older you may want to eat nothing but Gorgonzola cheese. Klaus, when Sunny was born, did not like her at all, but by the time she was six weeks old the two of them were thick as thieves. Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

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  Strong, Two, First Impression

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

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• In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they stopped calling, writing, and stopping by to see any of the Baudelaires, making them lonely". You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

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  Lonely, Writing, Mean

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• An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.

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  Mean, Night, Long Ago

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• The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

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  Smell, Cooking, Calming

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Daniel Handler, September 30, 1999.

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• Desperation is like a spilled drink; even if it's delicious, no one will get near it. Cultivate an aura of glamorous unapproachability.

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  Auras, Desperation, Drink

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• Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.

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  Writing, Dying, Form

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• A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.

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  Girl, Boys

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.108, Egmont UK

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• It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.

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  Receiving, News, Letters

  "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, April 24, 2007.

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• ...the moron who thought love was forever.

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  Forever, Moron

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.170, Egmont UK

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• If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.

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  Life, Positivity, Waiting

  "The Ersatz Elevator". Book by Daniel Handler, February 20, 2001.

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• Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

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  Silence

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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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  Serendipity, Library, Looks

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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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  Secret, Want, Might

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