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Very Quotes by Daniel Handler
- 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…
- It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have…
- 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…
- Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay…
- This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.
- It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong…
- Stealing, of course, is a crime, and a very impolite thing to do. But like most impolite things, it is excusable under certain circumstances. Stealing…
- 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…
- 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…
- Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations…
- Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had…
- It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else,…
- 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 was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.
- Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been…
- It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.
- One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is…
- The right hand doesn’t know what the left is doing†is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don’t know,…
- 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 don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong. You can look at a painting for the first time,…
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- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
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