"To handle a language skillfully is to practice……" — Charles Baudelaire

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• But the more I read... after awhile... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this… — Ken Kesey
• We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears… — Lionel Trilling
• Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new… — Kris Saknussemm
• Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists. — Jonathan Franzen
• The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait… — Malcolm Mclaren
• Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers… — Marilyn Manson
• Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside… — Daniel Handler
• And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If… — Daniel Handler
• E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the… — Daniel Handler
• Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the… — Daniel Handler
• (Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
• Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary,… — Gaston Bachelard

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