Edward Gorey Quotes - Page 2

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• If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either.

  Edward Gorey

  Children, Thinking, Trying

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion

  Edward Gorey

  Fashion, Passion, Excess

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• A small and sinister snow seems to be coming down relentlessly at present. The radio says it is eventually going to be sleet and rain, but I don't think so; I think it is just going to go on and on, coming down, until the whole world...etc. It has that look.

  Edward Gorey

  Rain, Thinking, Snow

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

  Edward Gorey

  Thinking, Might, Might Have Been

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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

  Edward Gorey

  Would Be, Indescribable, Ifs

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• I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

  Edward Gorey

  Trails, Inconsequential

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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.

  Edward Gorey

  Today, Intention, Literal

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• 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

  May, Damage, Possibility

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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.

  Edward Gorey

  Men, Heterosexuality Is, Serious

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• 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

  Nice, Thinking, World

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• If I do not seem to be mentioning anything I’ve read lately, it is because I am in one of those periods of undifferentiated flux or something in which I am reading about fifty, at a minimum, books at once, so of course I seldom finish one. Eventually this phase will pass, and I’ll discover I have about ten pages to go in all of them, and will sit down and systematically finish them, one after another.

  Edward Gorey

  Book, Reading, Phases

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

  Edward Gorey

  Crazy, Librarian, Mets

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

  Edward Gorey

  Important

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• ...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

  Acting, Actresses, Necks

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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

  Edward Gorey

  Fall, Way

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• Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no parties urns desuetude disaffection claws loss Trebizond napkins shame stones distance fever Antipodes mush glaciers incoherence labels miasma amputation tides deceit mourning elsewards.

  Edward Gorey

  Distance, Twilight, Party

  Edward Gorey (1953). “The Unstrung Harp, Or, Mr. Earbrass Writes a Novel”, Harcourt

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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.

  Edward Gorey

  Black, Stopping, Firsts

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• Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following 'because' in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

  Edward Gorey

  Light, Tears, Bed

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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.

  Edward Gorey

  Writing, Thinking, Everyday

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

  Edward Gorey

  Awful, Nonsense, No Point

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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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.

  Edward Gorey

  Evidence, Despite, Contrary

  Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

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• Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

  Edward Gorey

  Too Much, Gin, Drank

  Edward Gorey (1981). “The Gashlycrumb tinies, or, After the outing”, W. Clement Stone

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