Edward Gorey Quotes
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Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.
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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…
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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…
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I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
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Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.
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If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.
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Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through…
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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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To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
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When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.
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If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.
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Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one
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What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
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My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what…
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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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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'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 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…
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Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
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I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.
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