"There are few sights sadder than a ruined…" — Daniel Handler

"There are few sights sadder than a ruined book."

— Daniel Handler

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495 Quotes by Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler has 495 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy…
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration…
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.
Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring…
One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very…
This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great…
You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so…
I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in…
The real Santa Claus is at the mall.
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake…
How wrong to think I was anyone else, like thinking grass stains make you a beautiful view, like getting kissed…

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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