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“There were, he said contemptuously (...) only two stories, really:

A stranger comes to town

and

Someone goes on a journey.

(...) A woman (...) murmered a secret to me:
"Those are the same story.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“Each meal you eat is poison, because the food is just moving you through the world and the end of your time in it. Dinner is poison, and lunch. Brunch and eleveneses and both afternoon and bedtime snacks are poison, and so is breakfast the next morning, all these meals bringing us closer and closer to death.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“I can compare sadness to a car because both are quite capable of running me over.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast

“I almost never like things some people think everyone likes. I do not like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I do not like paddling a kayak in the hot sun. I do not like Santa Claus. I do not like it when someone takes out a guitar and everyone has to sing. I do not like standing in a cheering crowd, particularly if the crowd is watching people whose job it is to throw a ball throw a ball. I do not like a picture of a man on a horse. I do not like it when everybody is doing the same thing and someone is standing with a stopwatch waiting to give a prize to the person who finishes doing it first. I do not like hot chocolate and I do not like wearing a shirt or a hat with the name of a place written on it so everyone knows you have been to that place, and I am not a fan of raisins, so I am often frowning at the music in the supermarket.”
― Lemony Snicket, Poison for Breakfast