The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle! - Daniel Handler

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I haven't told anyone this before, but when I was a teenager. . . I actually thought I was turning into a boy, and I didn't really care. It didn't bother me at all.

Daniel Handler

The last time I saw you, I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

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Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

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It was darker than a pitch-black panther, covered in tar, eating black licorice at the very bottom of the deepest part of the Black Sea.

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If I were to say, "Yes, I am a fascinating, erudite person," what would that say about me? I don't know.

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If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!

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