"E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The……" — Daniel Handler
"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 becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How in the World Are We Going to Escape?"
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495 Quotes by Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler has 495 quotes on this site.
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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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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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The real Santa Claus is at the mall.
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More Baudelaire Quotes
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
— 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
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We live, understandably enough, with the sense of urgency; our clock, like Baudelaire's, has had the hands removed and bears…
— Lionel Trilling
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Robert Scott Leyse channels Baudelaire's Queen of Spades and Jack of Hearts, speaking darkly of dead loves, in this new…
— Kris Saknussemm
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Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.
— Jonathan Franzen
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The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait…
— Malcolm Mclaren
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Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs - Charles Baudelaire, the flowers…
— Marilyn Manson
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Get out of my way, you cakesniffers!” said a rude, violent, and filthy little girl, shoving the Baudelaire orphans aside…
— Daniel Handler
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And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If…
— Daniel Handler
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Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the…
— Daniel Handler
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(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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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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