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Edward Gorey Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams."

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.




Edward Gorey Quotes: "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."

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.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it."

If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.




Edward Gorey Quotes: "The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book."

The helpful thought for which you look Is written somewhere in a book.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "When people are finding meaning in things -- beware."

When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path."

Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.




Edward Gorey Quotes: "My favorite journey is looking out the window."

My favorite journey is looking out the window.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things."

God knows, there's enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season."

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



Edward Gorey Quotes: "I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off."

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance."

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.




Edward Gorey Quotes: "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."

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.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "I don't think anything might have been. What is, is."

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "I have given up considering happiness as relevant."

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion"

Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion



Edward Gorey Quotes: "To take my work seriously would be the height of folly."

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones."

I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed."

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else."

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important."

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable."

Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice."

The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin."

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you."

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



Edward Gorey Quotes: "Only art means anything."

Only art means anything.



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

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



Edward Gorey Quotes: "Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way."

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary."

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point."

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.



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

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



Edward Gorey Quotes: "I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head."

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting."

...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "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."

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.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "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."

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.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am."

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed."

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appallingThe thought she will be dead so soon."

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



Edward Gorey Quotes: "The Baron told her that only art meant anything."

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.



Edward Gorey Quotes: "On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately."

On the way home I absently minded (you know what I mean) went through a stop sign in Hyannis so of course there was a police car to apprehend me. A soft answer turnethed away wrath, fortunately.