"In this book, not only is there no……" — Daniel Handler
"In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle."
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495 Quotes by Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler has 495 quotes on this site.
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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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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came…
— Hannah Arendt
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
— Chinua Achebe
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The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'
— Margaret Atwood
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Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never…
— Sri Aurobindo
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