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born 1970 United States
Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970) is an American author, screenwriter and accordionist. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket.
United States Novelists Screenwriters Short story writers Also known as: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Adverbs, Lemony Snicket, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, The Austere Academy, The Beatrice Letters
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If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats. -Lemony Snicket
The Wide Window (2000)
This was that day if you know what I mean.
Adverbs (2006)
Violet: You’d better get to bed, Klaus. Follow me.
The Miserable Mill (2000)
Keith has one of those all terrain things that will come in so handy when the world ends and we need a nine-thousand -cylinder engine to drive over those hordes of blood-thirsty mutants crawling all over the video-game landscape.
Adverbs (2006)
It is useless to for me to describe to know 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 how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.
The Bad Beginning (1999)
Captain Widdershins: He who hesitates is lost!
The Grim Grotto (2004)
It's always dawnest before dark
Adverbs (2006)
Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of ‘systematically assisting Sisyphus’s stealthy, Syst-susceptible sister,’ which is easier done than said. - Lemony Snicket
The Vile Village (2001)
The rain, the rain, the rain. You can't even hear it outside the window but still it's a sad thing. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flower, and so many grade school teachers are single.
Adverbs (2006)
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.
The End (2006)
They are all one, the mothers of us all, like the money you spent. Imagine the vanish of weight if the advice of your mother never existed. They tell us things, unless we have no mothers and either way things turn out such that nothing you've ever heard is ever any help.
Adverbs (2006)
"I won't force you." - Ishmael
The End (2006)
Like all fairy tales, the story of Sleeping Beauty begins with "Once upon a time," and continues with a foolish young princess who makes a witch very angry, and then takes a nap until her boyfriend wakes her up with a kiss and insists on getting married, at which point the story ends with the phrase "happily ever after."
The Hostile Hospital (2001)
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