849 Quotes by Lemony Snicket

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    It was a mystery, like what the S stood for in Theodora’s name. I kept walking, with nothing but solitude for company. “Solitude” is a fancy name for being all by yourself. It’s not a bad name, I thought.

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    The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

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    Josephine caught my eye and gave me a signal we’d used for years to indicate that one of us had to leave. The signal was mouthing the words “I have to leave” and pointing at the door.

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    You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

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    Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.

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    A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

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    One of the greatest myths in the world – and the phrase ‘greatest myths is just a fancy way of saying ‘big fat lies’ – is that troublesome things get less and less troublesome if you do them more and more.

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    Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.

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