"But the world did not match the picture……" — Daniel Handler
"But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees."
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495 Quotes by Daniel Handler
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A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is…
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The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and…
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence…
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings…
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