Daniel Handler Quotes
Lemony Snicket: (narrating) Reading poetry, even if you are only reading to find a secret message within its words, can often give one a feeling of power, the way you can feel powerful if you are the only one who brought an umbrella on a rainy day, or the only one who knows how to untie knots when you're taken hostage.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I am very different to how people think I am. It's the characters I play that they are responding to.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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War is over if you want it.
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If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.
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The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.
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Q: Why is America the land of the overrated child and the underrated adult? Q: How can children grow up in a world in which adults idolize youthfulness? Q: What happens when the ad makers taker over all the popular myths and poetry? (p. 141)
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Power isn't doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, … It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.
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Lemony Snicket: (narrating) Reading poetry, even if you are only reading to find a secret message within its words, can often give one a feeling of power, the way you can feel powerful if you are the only one who brought an umbrella on a rainy day, or the only one who knows how to untie knots when you're taken hostage.
