I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Edward Gorey More Quotes by Edward Gorey More Quotes From Edward Gorey This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it’s no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it’s irritating. Edward Gorey boringtheoryart 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 artistidentitydoe I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones. Edward Gorey librarianmetscrazy 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 literalintentiontoday 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 rainsnowthinking To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. Edward Gorey heightfollywould-be Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. Edward Gorey going-awayimportantspeak I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off. Edward Gorey inconsequentialtrails Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable. Edward Gorey indescribableifswould-be All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important. Edward Gorey important If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. Edward Gorey no-pointnonsenseawful Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you. Edward Gorey niceviceshurt 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 distancepartytwilight Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one Edward Gorey interviewersregret 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 phasesreadingbook Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way. Edward Gorey wayfall 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 possibilitydamagemay I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary. Edward Gorey contrarydespiteevidence 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 stoppingblackfirsts 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 niceworldthinking
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