"It is almost as if happiness is an……" — Daniel Handler
"It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it."
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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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