Snicket Quotes

• Friends can make you feel that the world is smaller and less sneaky than it really is, because you know people who have similar experiences.

  Daniel Handler

  People, World, Sneaky

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• At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

  Daniel Handler

  Believe, Hard Times, Journey

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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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• 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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• Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Want, Facts

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• In the 1970s and 1980s there was so little decent fiction for young people, but we're now in a golden age that shows no sign of fading. Philip Pullman, J. K. Rowling, Lemony Snicket are only three of the best known among a good number of equals.

  David Mitchell

  Numbers, People, Age

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• I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

  Daniel Handler

  Realizing, Series Of Unfortunate Events, Occasions

  "Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography". Book by Daniel Handler, 2002.

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• I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.

  Daniel Handler

  Cutting, Often Can, Different

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

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• Boredom is not black licorice, Snicket," she said. "There's no reason to share it with me.

  Daniel Handler

  Boredom, Black, Reason

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• The more I protest that I'm not Lemony Snicket, and that I'm Daniel Handler instead, the more it becomes clear to the audience that I am in fact Lemony Snicket, that I am in fact standing in front of them.

  Daniel Handler

  Facts, Protest, Clear

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

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• With the publishing of The Basic Eight, it was often assumed that I was really immature and callow, and with the publishing of Watch Your Mouth, it was assumed that I was oversexualized, and with Lemony Snicket, it's often assumed that I'm erudite and depressed. But all the voices more or less came naturally to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Eight, Voice, Immature

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 26, 2005.

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• Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Character, Mean

  "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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• Lemony Snicket. Now, I'm told - the books, of course, starting from the very first one, became hugely popular, selling millions and millions. And I understand that when you used to go around to talk to your very young fans, you would appear as Lemony Snicket's representative or agent.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Fans, Agents

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm jealous of your hooks," Kevin replied. "Having no hands is better than having two equally strong hands." Don't be ridiculous," one of the white-faced women replied. "Having a white face is worse than both of your situations." But you have a white face because you put makeup on," Colette said, as Sunny climbed back out of the trunk and knelt down in the snow. "You're putting powder on your face right now.

  Daniel Handler

  Strong, Jealous, Makeup

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• Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged sword Kit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Tea, Events

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• Reader: Dear Mr. Snicket, What is the best way to keep a secret? Lemony Snicket : Tell it to everyone you know, but pretend you are kidding.

  Daniel Handler

  Secret, Way, Dear

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• I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers, "I don't think I could write any more drafts." I guess I was sort of hoping they would say, "Well that's okay, this last one is perfect." But instead, they said, "It's funny you should say that. We don't think you can write any more drafts either."

  Daniel Handler

  Writing, Thinking, Eight

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

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• I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.

  Daniel Handler

  Grateful, Upset, Might

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

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• I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.

  Daniel Handler

  Stars, Revenge, Dvds

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

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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.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Assessment, Stories

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

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• I was once almost forced off the stage at a large chain bookstore that shall remain nameless, because she introduced me as Lemony Snicket, and I immediately interrupted her and said, "Oh no, Lemony Snicket isn't here," and then she tried to cancel the event right then and there.

  Daniel Handler

  Events, Bookstores, Chains

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

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• I'm always loath to make generalizations about what is for children and what isn't. Certainly children's literature as a genre has some restrictions, so certain things will never pop up in a Snicket book. But I didn't know anything about writing for children when I started - this is the theme of naïveté creeping up on us once more - and I sort of still don't, and I'm happy that adults are reading them as well as children.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Book, Reading

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

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