Rating: 4/5
Lemony Snicket is one of the best authors of all time. His philosophies from various books are collected here in this short book of hilarious quotes. Some of these quotes include:
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.”
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
“Those unable to catalogue the past are doomed to repeat it.”
“All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found.”
“If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats.”
“There is a popular game in which one person says something to another, and that person says it to another, and so on, and all the while the message is getting more and more garbled until it is nonsense. The game is called ‘living in the world’ and it’s been played for thousands of years.”
“Should you read in the morning, the afternoon, or in the middle of the night? — Yes.”
Accompanied by funny pictures, this book is hilarious and inspiring at the same time.