Daniel Handler Quotes - Page 6

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• I have produced things that I would say were sincerely cheerful. But then I am reminded by other people that no one else would see them that way.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Cheerful, Way

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• When I was researching my very first novel, "The Basic Eight," I was calling right-wing political and religious organizations and asking them to mail me their material so that I could mock them in my novels.

  Daniel Handler

  Religious, Eight, Wings

  "Not My Job: Author Daniel Handler Gets Quizzed On Baggage Handlers". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. January 21, 2017.

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• Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

  Daniel Handler

  Feelings, Hawks

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• It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

  Daniel Handler

  Sea, Black, Panthers

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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.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, People, Would Be

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

  Daniel Handler

  Waiting, Hardship

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• Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot at them? Is it fair for the bears to crush them with giant snowballs? Often, if you point out something that isn't fair, someone will reply, "Life isn't fair." What is to be done with such people?

  Daniel Handler

  Crush, People, Soldier

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• When do you learn that the world, like any diner worth its salt, is open twenty-four hours a day?

  Daniel Handler

  Twenties, World, Diners

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• How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.

  Daniel Handler

  Heart, Mind, Alive

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• I found powerful the idea that everything we have is, in effect, stolen from everybody else.

  Daniel Handler

  Powerful, Ideas, Stolen

  "Lemony Snicket Walks the Plank". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. January, 2015.

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• What should we call him?" Klaus asked. "You should call him Dr. Montgomery," Mr. Poe replied, "unless he tells you to call him Montgomery. Both his first and last names are Montgomery, so it doesn't make much difference." "His name is Montgomery Montgomery?" Klaus said, smiling. "Yes, and I'm sure he's very sensitive about that, so don't ridicule him," Mr. Poe said, coughing again into his handkerchief.

  Daniel Handler

  Names, Differences, Drs

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• For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

  Daniel Handler

  Lonely, Firsts, Mets

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• I think I’ve always believed that there is one person in the universe who you’re truly meant for–for whom you are truly meant–and the fact that sometimes there are two or even more people on the earth you can fall in love with really bothers me. It suggests that if you work hard you can be meant for anyone.

  Daniel Handler

  Falling In Love, Hard Work, Thinking

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• 'Help me,' Allison says, but she is soft-spoken, and everyone she loves is so far away.

  Daniel Handler

  Love Is, Helping, Far Away

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• The expression "following suit" is a curious one, because it has nothing to do with walking behind a matching set of clothing. If you follow suit, it means you do the same thing somebody else has just done. If all of your friends decided to jump off a bridge into the icy waters of an ocean or river, for instance, and you jumped in right after them, you would be following suit. You can see why following suit can be a dangerous thing to do, because you could end up drowning simply because somebody else thought of it first.

  Daniel Handler

  Ocean, Mean, Expression

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• Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

  Daniel Handler

  Joy, Grammar

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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.

  Daniel Handler

  Mean, Night, Long Ago

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

  Daniel Handler

  Princess, Jealous, Dancing

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

  Daniel Handler

  Girl, Boys

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

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• What you don't read is often as important as what you do read.

  Daniel Handler

  Inspiring, Reading, Important

  "The Vile Village". Book by Daniel Handler, 2001.

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• That night was a dark day. Of course, all nights are dark days, because night is simply a badly lit version of day.

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  Dark, Night, Lit

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• Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink.

  Daniel Handler

  Feelings, Drink, Thirsty

  "Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement". Book by Amy Schrager Lang and Daniel Lang/Levitsky, p. 199, 2012.

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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.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, House, Forgotten

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.14, 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.

  Daniel Handler

  Receiving, News, Letters

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

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• Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.

  Daniel Handler

  Money, Children, Eye

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