"I do what I do," I said, "in order to do something else."

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Daniel Handler

#Order Quotes #Said Quotes

“I had a fear of being alone.”
“1. "What do you really want to get out of life?" 2. "What can you offer the world that no one else can?”
“You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.”
“That bumper sticker everyone has down in Philadelphia, the one that says, 'Only the Lord saves more than Bernie Parent,' really isn't true. God couldn't have made all the saves that Parent made against us.”
“If he does not plant the field that was given over to him as a garden, if it be arable land, the gardener shall pay the owner the produce of the field for the years that he let it lie fallow, according to the product of neighboring fields, put the field in arable condition and return it to its owner.”
“All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.”

Source : Edmund Wilson (1977). “Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972”
“I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.”

Source : "Bangkok 8". Book by John Burdett, June, 2003.
“If you've never met a Navy SEAL and you ran into one at a bar, you probably still wouldn't know he's a Navy SEAL.”

Source : "Who Are the Members of Navy SEAL Team Six?" by Chris Cuomo, Jay Shaylor and Katie Morison, abcnews.go.com. January 25, 2012.

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