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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: The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

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: My favorite journey is looking out the window.

My favorite journey is looking out the window.

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

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

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: 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: He presented it with a length of stringand passed on to the statue of Corrupted Endeavorto await the arrival of Autumn.

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

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: When people are finding meaning in things beware.

When people are finding meaning in things
beware.

Edward Gorey quotes: The helpful thought for which you lookIs written somewhere in a book.

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

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: 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: Only art means anything.

Only art means anything.

Edward Gorey quotes: He wrote it all down Zealously.

He wrote it all down Zealously.

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

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

Edward Gorey quotes: Books. Cats. Life is Good.

Books. Cats. Life is Good.

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

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'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: 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: 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: 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 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: Sir U fell down from a speeding train,Which did some damage to his brain,And after that he did not knowHow to pronounce the letter O.

Sir U fell down from a speeding train,
Which did some damage to his brain,
And after that he did not know
How to pronounce the letter O.

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: 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: I thought it was going to be different;It turned out to be(,) just the same.

I thought it was going to be different;
It turned out to be(,) just the same.

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: Such excess of passionis quite out of fashion

Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion

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: let's take the time that has been given to us and find that clock.

let's take the time that has been given to us and find that clock.

Edward Gorey quotes: I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.

I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.

Edward Gorey quotes: When they answered the bell on that wild winter night. There was no one expected - and no one in sight.

When they answered the bell on that wild winter night. There was no one expected - and no one in sight.

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

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

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: 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: 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 appalling
The thought she will be dead so soon.

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

I have given up considering happiness as relevant.