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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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Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.
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...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.
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All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.
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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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I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
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Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
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I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.
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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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When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.
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