Daniel Handler Quotes

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• Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution -- even if it's right in front of your…
• There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the…
• I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.
• ...that's not why we broke up. I love it, I miss it, I hate to give it back to you, this complicated thing, it's why…
• Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.
• In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
• The worst surroundings in the world can be tolerated if the people in them are interesting and kind.
• I think we'll always miss our parents. But I think we can miss them without being miserable all the time. After all, they wouldn't want…
• What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet.
• It is very easy to say that the important thing is to try your best, but if you are in real trouble the most important…
• The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.
• A mystery is solved with a story.
• Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt I will ever know why.
• Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.
• They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
• Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.
• You must be all a-tingle with excitement.' 'I guess so,' I said, but I did not feel a-tingle. I did not feel a-anything.
• It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.
• The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need…
• You can invent things like automatic popcorn poppers. You can invent things like steam-powered window washers. But you can’t invent more time.

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