"But there are times in this harum-scarum world……" — Daniel Handler
"But there are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible...."
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495 Quotes by Daniel Handler
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One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy…
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The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration…
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I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.
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Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring…
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One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very…
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This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.
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The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great…
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You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so…
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I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in…
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The real Santa Claus is at the mall.
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Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake…
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How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed…
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Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.
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When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.
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Figuring out who you are is the whole point of the human experience.
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Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.
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When asked what single event was most helpful in developing the Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein replied, "Figuring out how…
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The key thing is figuring out what your issues are, and it's really never about the food. You have to…
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I think the human mind is fascinating. I love figuring out why people are doing what they do.
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