821 Quotes by Daniel Handler

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    I’m not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one’s efforts. I’m not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it’s the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them.

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    It’s okay to like jerks. I mean, it’d be better to like a nice guy, but there aren’t any.

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    One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone’s history.

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    All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found.

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    After a certain age, you couldn’t even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.

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    One narrative, about the hated people in our lands, is that eventually they get what is coming to them.

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    Olaf: Of course I’m trying to trick you! That’s the way of the world, Baudelaires. Everyone runs around with their secrets and their schemes, trying to outwit everyone else.

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    After all, I was only eighteen then. I’m almost twenty now. I learned lots about narrative structure in my Honors English classes so I know what I’m doing.

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    I never told you that, even after telling you I love you, all those times all that day, I never told you how beautiful it was then, like everyone was telling us not to be.

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