“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

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American writer, artist, and illustrator 1925–2000

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