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Daniel Handler, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di Lemony Snicket , è uno scrittore, sceneggiatore e fisarmonicista statunitense.

È l'autore di Una serie di sfortunati eventi, da cui è stato tratto il film Lemony Snicket - Una serie di sfortunati eventi, diretto da Brad Silberling, e la serie televisiva Una serie di sfortunati eventi trasmessa su Netflix. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Febbraio 1970  •  Altri nomi دنیل هندلر
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Daniel Handler: Frasi in inglese

“If you have ever peeled an onion, then you know that the first thin, papery layer reveals another thin, papery layer, and that layer reveals another, and another, and before you know it you have hundreds of layers all over the kitchen table and thousands of tears in your eyes, sorry that you ever started peeling in the first place and wishing that you had left the onion alone to wither away on the shelf of the pantry while you went on with your life, even if that meant never again enjoying the complicated and overwhelming taste of this strange and bitter vegetable.

In this way, the story of the Baudelaire orphans is like an onion, and if you insist on reading each and every thin, papery layer in A Series of Unfortunate Events, your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes. Even if you have read the first twelve volumes of the Baudelaires' story, it is not too late to stop peeling away the layers, and to put this book back on the shelf to wither away while you read something less complicated and overwhelming. The end of this unhappy chronicle is like its bad beginning, as each misfortune only reveals another, and another, and another, and only those with the stomach for this strange and bitter tale should venture any farther into the Baudelaire onion. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.”

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Daniel Handler libro The End

Origine: The End (2006), Chapter 1

“I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.”

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Daniel Handler libro Adverbs

Origine: Adverbs

“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read. For instance, if you are walking in the mountains, and you don't read the sign that says "Beware of Cliff" because you were busy reading a joke book instead, you may suddenly find yourself walking on air rather than on a sturdy bed of rocks. If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled "How to Build a Chair" instead of a cookbook, your pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling. And if you insist on reading this book instead of something more cheerful, you will most certainly find yourself moaning in despair instead of wriggling with delight, so if you have any sense at all you will put this book down and pick up another one. I know of a book, for instance, called The Littlest Elf, which tells the story of a teensy-weensy little man who scurries around fairyland having all sorts of adorable adventures, and you can see at once that you should probably read The Littlest Elf and wriggle over the lovely things that happened to this imaginary creature in a made-up place, instead of reading this book and moaning over the terrible things that have happened to the three Baudelaire orphans.”

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Daniel Handler libro The Vile Village

Lemony Snicket
The Vile Village (2001)

“Halloween seems to last forever, until it is finally time to put on one's costume and demand candy from strangers.”

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Daniel Handler libro The End

The End (2006)

“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. Ishmael outwitted me, and put me in this cage. But I know how to outwit him and all his islander friends. If you let me out, I can be king of Olaf-Land, and you three can be my new henchfolk.”

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Daniel Handler libro The End

Origine: The End (2006), Chapter 7

“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.”

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Daniel Handler libro The End

The End (2006)

“Stop saying no offense,” I said, “when you say offensive things. It’s not a free pass.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“The thing with your heart's desire is that your heart doesn't even know what it desires until it turns up.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“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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“I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“… the moron who thought love was forever.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“You either have the feeling or you don’t.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Variante: Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies
Origine: Why We Broke Up

“Someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again.”

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Daniel Handler libro Adverbs

Origine: Adverbs

“This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“This is love, to sit with someone you've known forever in a place you've been meaning to go, and watching as their life happens to them until you stand up and it's time to go.”

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Daniel Handler libro Adverbs

Origine: Adverbs

“I hadn't even been looking, not for you, and now you were my heart's desire.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“Undeveloped, the whole thing, tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“A girl meets a boy, Ed, and everything changes, or so she says.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.”

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Daniel Handler libro Adverbs

Origine: Adverbs (2006), Truly
Contesto: If you follow the diamond in my mother's ring from Africa to Germany to California to Arizona to Wisconsin, in the heel of a grandmother, in the beak of a magpie, in the gravel of the path, in someone else's novel, in the center of the earth where the volcanoes are from, you would forget the miracle, the reason diamonds end up in people's fingers in the first place. it is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes, it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.

“Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“Take it back, Ed. Take it all back.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“who would dare think that, forever? Some idiot girl who wouldn’t know how things played out.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

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

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

“But it’s December now, and the sky is bright, and it’s clear to me. I’m telling you why we broke up, Ed. I’m writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.”

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Daniel Handler libro Why We Broke Up

Origine: Why We Broke Up

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