Series Of Unfortunate Events Book 1 Quotes

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There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately.
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Lemony Snicket (The Complete Wreck (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1-13))
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All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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What a schmuck!
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other books. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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Count Olaf had taken out a bottle of wine to pour himself some breakfast, but when he saw the book he stopped, and sat down.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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Just because something is typedβ€”whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or bookβ€”this does not mean that it is true.
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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The room was a library. Not a public library, but a private library; that is, a collection of books belonging to Justice Strauss. There were shelves and shelves of them, on every wall from the floor to the ceiling, and separate shelves of them in the middle of the room. The only place were there weren't books was in one corner, where there were some large, comfortable-looking chairs and a wooden table with lamps hanging over them, perfect for reading. Although it was not as big as their parents library, it was cozy, and the Baudelaire children were thrilled.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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Klaus had not told his siblings about the book, because he didn't want to give them false hope.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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For sapphires we are held in here. Only you can end our fear.” Violet said. β€œUntil dawn comes we cannot speak. No words can come from this sad beak.
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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Being only twelve, Klaus of course had not read all the books in the Baudelaire library, but he had read a great many of them and had retained a lot of the information from his readings. He knew how to tell an alligator from a crocodile. He knew who killed Julius Caesar. And he knew much about the tiny, slimy animals found at Briny Beach, which he was examining now.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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At this point in the story, I feel obliged to interrupt and give you one last warning. As I said at the very beginning, the book you are holding in your hands does not have a happy ending. It may appear now that Count Olaf will go to jail and that the three Baudelaire youngsters will live happily ever after with Justice Strauss, but it is not so. If you like, you may shut the book this instant and not read the unhappy ending that is to follow. You may spend the rest of your life believing that the Baudelaires triumphed over Count Olaf and lived the rest of their lives in the house and library of Justice Strauss, but that is not how the story goes.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something diferent. For instance, people who hate stories in which terrible things happen to small children should put this book down immediately. But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do" - to read long, dull, and difficult books. The Baudelaire children had a slightly different incentive for reading these books, of course. Their incentive was not heaps of money, but preventing Count Olaf from doing something horrible to them in order to get heaps of money. But even with this incentive, getting through the law books in Justice Strauss's private library was a very, very, very hard task. "Goodness," Justice Strauss said, when she came into the library and saw what they were reading. [...] "I thought you were interested in mechanical engineering, animals of North America, and teeth. Are you sure you want to read those enormous law books? Even I don't like reading them, and I work in law.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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trivial as her hair. This morning she was thinking about how to construct
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different. For instance, people who hate stories in which terrible things happen to small children should put this book down immediately. But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentiveβ€”the word β€œincentive” here means β€œan offered reward to persuade you to do something you don’t want to do”—to read long, dull, and difficult books.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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Deciding on the right thing to do in a situation is a bit like deciding on the right thing to wear to a party. It is easy to decide on what is wrong to wear to a party, such as deep-sea diving equipment or a pair of large pillows, but deciding what is right is much trickier. It might seem right to wear a navy blue suit, for instance, but when you arrive there could be several other people wearing the same thing, and you could end up being handcuffed due to a case of mistaken identity. It might seem right to wear your favorite pair of shoes, but there could be a sudden flood at the party, and your shoes would be ruined. And it might seem right to wear a suit of armor to the party, but there could be several other people wearing the same thing, and you could end up being caught in a flood due to a case of mistaken identity, and find yourself drifting out to sea wishing that you were wearing deep-sea diving equipment after all. The truth is that you can never be sure if you have decided on the right thing until the party is over, and by then it is too late to go back and change your mind, which is why the world is filled with people doing terrible things and wearing ugly clothing, and so few volunteers who are able to stop them.
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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take either forty-eight or eighty-four pages to
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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couplet.
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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white beans, cherry tomatoes, and fresh basil, all mixed together with lime juice, olive oil, and cayenne pepper,
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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It may be difficult to believe, but, at any given moment, someone somewhere is in a dangerous situation and other people in some other place are dancing and having a good time. The world is often like this. A celebration here; terrible trouble just outside the door.
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events (Books 1-10))
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There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different. For instance, people who hate stories in which terrible things happen to small children should put this book down immediately.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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Unfortunately the acts of the virtuous don’t make news, and we’re conditioned today to seek sensation. Every non-event is reported as a crisis.
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Margaret Yorke (Dead in the Morning (Patrick Grant Series Book 1))
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Γ” Mort, vieux capitaine, il est temps! levons l’ancre! Ce pays nous ennuie, Γ΄ Mort! Appareillons! Si le ciel et la mer sont noirs comme de l’encre, Nos coeurs que tu connais sont remplis de rayons!
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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β€”they needed to be lucky
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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We all know, of course, that we should never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever fiddle around in any way with electric devices.
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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The book was long, and difficult to read, and klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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Coach Genghis rather
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentiveβ€”the word β€œincentive” here means β€œan offered reward to persuade you to do something you don’t want to do”—to read long, dull, and difficult books.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events #1))
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except instead of the word β€œlove” there was an enormous heart, a symbol sometimes used by people who have trouble figuring out the difference between words and shapes.
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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they knew, from the prism of their experience,
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Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events Complete Collection: Books 1-13: With Bonus Material)
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How could we find out about the law without Olaf’s knowledge?” β€œBook!” Sunny shouted suddenly. She probably meant something like β€œWould somebody please wipe my face?” but it made Violet and Klaus look at each other. Book. They were both thinking the same thing: Surely Justice Strauss would have a book on inheritance law.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))
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Have you found anything in your book yet?” β€œNothing helpful,” Violet said, glancing down at a piece of scrap paper on which she had been taking notes. β€œFifty years ago there was a woman who left an enormous sum of money to her pet weasel, and none to her three sons. The three sons tried to prove that the woman was insane so the money would go to them.” β€œWhat happened?” Klaus asked. β€œI think the weasel died,” Violet replied, β€œbut I’m not sure. I have to look up some of the words.” β€œI don’t think it’s going to help us anyway,” Klaus said.
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Lemony Snicket (The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1))