"This is an absurd moral, for you and……" — Daniel Handler

"This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie."

— 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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More Absurd Quotes

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It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to… — Honore de Balzac
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. — Wendell Berry
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience… — Annie Besant
Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our… — Bono
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of… — Samuel Butler
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help… — David Byrne
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out… — Lord Byron
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. — Albert Camus
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them… — Albert Camus
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. — Miguel de Cervantes

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