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More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
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 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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Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.
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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 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.
Edward Gorey
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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What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
Edward Gorey
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.
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When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.
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The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.
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God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.
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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.
Edward Gorey
Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.
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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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Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
Edward Gorey
I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
Edward Gorey
It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.
Edward Gorey
A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.
Edward Gorey
I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.
Edward Gorey
Books, Cats, Life is Good.
Edward Gorey
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.
Edward Gorey
