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Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings. Wikipedia  

✵ 22. February 1925 – 15. April 2000  •  Other names Էդվարդ Գորի
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Famous 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.”

Edward Gorey

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.”

Edward Gorey

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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

Edward Gorey

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“Books. Cats. Life is Good.”

Edward Gorey

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

Edward Gorey

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

“Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion”

Edward Gorey

Source: Amphigorey

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.”

Edward Gorey

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on 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.”

Edward Gorey

“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

“My favorite journey is looking out the window.”

Edward Gorey

“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

“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

Source: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer

“I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.”

Edward Gorey

“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

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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

Edward Gorey

Source: The Evil Garden

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

Edward Gorey

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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

Edward Gorey

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

Edward Gorey

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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

Edward Gorey

“I have given up considering happiness as relevant.”

Edward Gorey

“Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.”

Edward Gorey

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

Edward Gorey

Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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