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All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.
Edward Gorey
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Edward Gorey
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 22
Died: 2000
Died: April 15
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There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.
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I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.
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What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
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I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.
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I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
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I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.
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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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Only art means anything.
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Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
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