Edward Gorey quotes

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. (Edward Gorey)
Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion. View quote
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All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important. View quote
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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. View quote
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Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams. View quote
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My favorite journey is looking out the window. View quote
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Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path. View quote
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When people are finding meaning in things -- beware. (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. View quote
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What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed. View quote
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Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one. View quote
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I have given up considering happiness as relevant. View quote
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I don't think anything might have been. What is, is. View quote
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I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off. View quote
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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 is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems. View quote
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Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way. View quote
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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 rotted away. View quote
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Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin. (Edward Gorey)
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance. View quote
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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 the world is like. View quote
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Books. Cats. Life is Good. View quote
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The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book. View quote
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