Daniel Handler Quotes

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• Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely…
• When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it…
• Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are…
• There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.
• Having an aura of menace is like having a pet weasel, because you rarely meet someone who has one, and when you do, it makes…
• And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a…
• The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if…
• A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding…
• The holiday season is a time for storytelling, and whether you are hearing the story of a candelabra staying lit for more than a week,…
• It is often said that reading is a gift, but to my mind that is an insufficient description, for the size of the gift of…
• 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…
• The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close.…
• Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.
• Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible…
• There are almost as many kinds of libraries as there are kinds of readers.
• Instead of the word 'love' there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words…
• You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or…
• For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use as a commonplace…
• Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee…
• If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good…

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