Daniel Handler Quotes

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• He who hesitates is lost
• It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
• Let’s go, let’s go together toward something extraordinary and I started making plans, thinking we would get that far.
• There are two good reasons to put your napkin in your lap. One is that food might spill in your lap, and it is better…
• Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of…
• They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in…
• It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so…
• But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water…
• Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on…
• I’m reminded of a book my father used to read me,” she said. “A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over…
• 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,…
• There is no easy way to train an apprentice. My two tools are example and nagging.
• When things don't go right, go left
• ...everyone was right about you- prove them wrong.
• That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the…
• ...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.
• There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or…
• A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.
• ...in life it is often the tiny details that end up being the most important.
• It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.

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