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What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
Edward Gorey
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Edward Gorey
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 22
Died: 2000
Died: April 15
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I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.
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Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.
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Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.
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I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.
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I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.
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I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
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If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.
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Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion
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This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating.
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God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.
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There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.
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I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
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I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does that's what makes it so boring.
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Only art means anything.
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It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.
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More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
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Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.
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The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.
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Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
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