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Inspirational Quotes by Edward Gorey
- Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.
- I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.
- If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.
- To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
- When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.
- Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one
- What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
- All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.
- 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.
- Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
- I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.
- I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.
- Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.
- My favorite journey is looking out the window.
- I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
- Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion
- 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.
- The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.
- More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
- I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento