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Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970) is an American writer and musician. He is best known for his children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions, published under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. The former was adapted into a Nickelodeon film in 2004, and a Netflix series from 2017 onwards.

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But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.

Overlooking, Sea, Tree, Uncombed, Water

This is an absurd moral, for you and I both know that sometimes not only is it good to lie, it is necessary to lie.

Good, Lie, Lying, Moral, Sometimes

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

Fire, Fought, Whole, World

One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or "Anna Karenina" when the obvious answer is "a well equipped boat and a crew to sail me off the island and back home where I can play all the card games and read all the Russian novels I want.

Equipped, Games, Home, People, Play, Questions

A bolt from the blue.

Blue, Bolt, Bolts

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

Alone, Away, Discovered, Hate, Long Distance Relationship, Long Love

Once more, this is love: it rings and you open up unless it looks like an ax murderer.

Looks, Murderer, Open, Rings

Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

Eye, Hair, Keep, Knack, Real, Thinking

We laughed the rest of the way, because the point of this story is, it is not the cookies. It is the love.

Cookies, Point, Stories, Way

Dumping you times infinity. Still not enough.

Dumping, Enough, Infinity, Stills

Blinded following the Blindfolded

Blinded, Blindfolded, Following

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

Admit, Distance, Missing, Relationship, Terribly, World

Mostly, it's flattering to meet fans. As long as it's in a planned, professional meeting, rather than, say, someone dropping by my home, which is not as pleasant.

Fans, Flattering, Home, Long, Planned, Professional

. . . there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

Enough, Ink, Ink And Paper, Paper, Say, Wanted

The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as if you have been set aflame, not only because of the enormous pain, but also because your sadness may spread over your life, like smoke from an enormous fire.

Aflame, Fire, Pain, Sad, Set, Strange

I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.

Adventure, Broke, Gasped, Saws, Showed, Way

Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

Action, Circles, People, Stone, Thing, Tiny

Who are you?" Violet asked. It is confusing to fall asleep in the daytime and wake up at night. "what are you doing with Uncle Monty's reptiles?" Klaus asked. It is also confusing to realize you have been sleeping on stairs, rather than in a bed or sleeping bag. "Dixnik?" Sunny asked. It is always confusing why anyone would choose to wear a plaid shirt.

Confusing, Fall, Plaid, Sleep, Uncles, Violet

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

Ends, Might, Movie, Reading, Roadmap, Screenplays

Everybody has a theory.

Everybody, Theory

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