"It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream sandwiches."

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Source : "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, 2007.

Daniel Handler

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“Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.”
“I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.”
“I hide my true feelings to avoid causing you trouble or pain, I act strong to show you that I'm not unreliable, I hold my tears back to show you that I'm happy but what hurts the most is knowing the fact that I'm not all these things I portray to be.”
“In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message.”
“The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.”

Source : "Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century". Book by Tzvetan Todorov, 2003.
“What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.”
“Apologists for the profession contend that lawyers are as honest as other men, but this is not very encouraging.”

Source : "The Joke's On... Lawyers" by Stan D. Ross, Federation Press, (p. 43), 1996.
“She didn't love him and he didn't love her; she was like an addiction, and what they were doing had a darkness to it, a weight.”

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