Correspondence Quote by Edward Gorey

““where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.””

Edward Gorey

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I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

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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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