Believe Quote by Edward Gorey

“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.”

Edward Gorey

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I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

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Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

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I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

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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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There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually…

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“Apropos of nothing at all except that it has been on my mind and I think I had better say it because it accounts…

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Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

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“How elegant! how choice! how gay! To think one doesn’t have to pay. There is sound of falling tears; It comes from nowhere to…

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I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.

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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…

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The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

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“He presented it with a length of string and passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavor to await the arrival of Autumn.”

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That's why I don't generally talk about endorsements because I don't believe we have to tell people who to vote for.

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