Daniel Handler Quotes
But the world did not match the picture in my head, and instead I was with a strange, uncombed person, overlooking a sea without water and a forest without trees.
Snicket, Lemony. The Carnivorous Carnival. HarperCollins, 2002.
In 1915 the Balkans was contorted by War and political intrigue. Serbia in particular was totally unrealistic about making any concessions to Bulgaria. Grey and his associates tried to explain the realities to the Serbian Ambassador who, before the British could articulate the whole situation, told them that he and the rest of the Serbian leadership would rather die than give up any territory. Grey later observed :
A number of American politicians are so xenophobic that they do not believe that there is anything America or Americans have to learn from foreigners or other nations. They are often apoplectic when in a legal case for example, one of the attorneys cites a case in another country or the practice of another country. Reaction is similar sometimes when policy alternatives are being debated.
Daniel Handler is an American writer and musician. He is best known for his children's series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions, published under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. The former was adapted into a Nickelodeon film in 2004 as well as a Netflix series from 2017 to 2019.
