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- How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed makes you kissable, like feeling…
- Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
- A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path…
- 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…
- If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good…
- E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was…
- It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something…
- It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is…
- If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.
- They looked at each other like a pair of parentheses.
- The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and…
- I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be…
- If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy…
- I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the…
- I liked, I admit, that we didn’t pretend there hadn’t been other girls. There was always a girl on you in the halls at school,…
- The whole thing of what I’ve been trying,†you said, “is that you’re different, and you keep asking about the other girls, but what I…
- I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around…
- 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…
- 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…
- Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his…
More Other Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Friendship is not only about sharing each and everything having long conversation, hanging out, its about having complete trust in each other… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle