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One Quotes by Daniel Handler
- One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece…
- The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
- I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.
- One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous…
- The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as…
- The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything.
- Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around…
- It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually…
- Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.
- It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.
- Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.
- If you have ever lost a loved one, then you know exactly how it feels. And if you have not, then you cannot possibly imagine…
- ...you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.
- But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for…
- One of the world's most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks,…
- A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so…
- To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.
- Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.
- One can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things,…
- The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare