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Only art means anything.
Edward Gorey
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Edward Gorey
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: February 22
Died: 2000
Died: April 15
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E.D. Ward
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Books, Cats, Life is Good.
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I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
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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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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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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
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
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.
Edward Gorey
It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.
Edward Gorey
The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.
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I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.
Edward Gorey
What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
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Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.
Edward Gorey
Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.
Edward Gorey
...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.
Edward Gorey
When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.
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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
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.
Edward Gorey
Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
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.
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Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion
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