"They didn't understand it, but like so many……" — Daniel Handler
"They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."
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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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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do…
— Michelle Bachelet
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
— Nicholson Baker
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the…
— Russell Baker
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also…
— Javier Bardem
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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