“Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fist...”
Author detail
Lemony Snicket is the legal nom de plume of American novelist Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970). Snicket is the author of several children's books, serving as the narrator of *A Series of Unfortunate Events* (his best known work) and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, Lemony Snicket is both a fictional character and a real person. Handler was born in San Francisco, California. He attended Commodore Sloat Elementary, Herbert Hoover Middle School and Lowell High School. Handler graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992. He is an alumnus of the San Francisco Boys Chorus. Handler is married to Lisa Brown, a graphic artist that he met in college.They have a son, Otto, who was born around Halloween 2003. They live in an old Victorian house in San Francisco. Handler's mother is retired City College of San Francisco Dean, Sandra Handler, and his father, Louis Handler, is an accountant. He also has a younger sister, Rebecca Handler.
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“Of course, it is boring to read about boring thing, but it is better to read something that makes you yawn with boredom than something that will make you weep uncontrollably, pound your fist...”
“Of course, it is quite possible to be in the dark in the dark, but there are so many secrets in the world that it is likely that you are always in the dark about one thing or another, whethe...”
“Literature doesn’t exactly have a strong mental-health track record.”
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“I am alone this evening, and I am alone because of a cruel twist of fate, a phrase which here means that nothing has happened the way I thought it would. Once I was a content man, with a com...”
“It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.”
“Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.”
“It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know...”
“In any case, this is how all our stories begin, in darkness with our eyes closed, and all our stories end the same way, too, with all of us uttering some last words—or perhaps someone else’s...”
“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...”
“I am heartbroken, but I have been heartbroken before, and this might be the best for which I can hope.”
“All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found”
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“Writing is a dying form. One reads of this every day.”
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“If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn't mean that you would be a m...”
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“There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.”
“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.”
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them”
“You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.”
“All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.”
“Klaus sighed, and opened a book, and as at so many other times when the middle Baudelaire child did not want to think about his circumstances, he began to read.”
“I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I'm here alone.”
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