"Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings……" — Daniel Handler
"Historically, a story about people inside impressive buildings ignoring or even taunting people standing outside shouting at them turns out to be a story with an unhappy ending."
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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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Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the…
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I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know…
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The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference for the negotiations that…
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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
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It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very…
— Cecilia Bartoli
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The Beliebers have done some pretty crazy stuff. Last week, the night before I was due to do a show…
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In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if…
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat…
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On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the…
— Michael Bloomberg
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On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we…
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