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50 quotes
American novelist, also known by the pseudonym Lemony Snicket
“All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found”
"When you find the sort of people who will show up to give you a ride exactly when they've promised to do so, hold on to them for dear life."
on Relationships
"Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact."
on Death
"The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history."
on Nature
"It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing."
on Anxiety
"the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise."
on Philosophy
"The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads."
on Perception
"Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument."
"We are respecting our parents' wishes....They didn't want to shelter us from the world's treacheries. They wanted us to survive them."
on Life
"Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess."
on Love
"...bravery often demands a price."
on Courage
"Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."
on Truth
"If you ask one question, it will lead you to another, and another. It's like peeling an onion."
on Curiosity
"You don't spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two."
on Learning
"Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it."
on History
"With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer."
on Wisdom
"Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see."
on Faith
"I like a story that could never happen to me. If I want real life I'll read a newspaper."
on Writing
"...The sea... some have said is nothing but a library of all the tears in history."
"People who think nothing can go wrong are usually disappointed."
"Everyone tells you it's all right to cry, but not enough people say it's all right if you don't want people to know."
on Emotion
