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Edward Gorey - From the Art category:
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)
Edward Gorey - From the Belief category:
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)
Edward Gorey - From the Books category:
Books, Cats, Life is Good. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Boredom category:
Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Critics category:
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Drawing category:
If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Gender category:
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)
Edward Gorey - From the Happiness category:
I have given up considering happiness as relevant. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Importance category:
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Insecurity category:
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)
Edward Gorey - From the Interpretation category:
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Meaning category:
When people are finding meaning in things - beware. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Methodology category:
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Profession category:
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)
Edward Gorey - From the Thought category:
The helpful thought for which you look / Is written somewhere in a book. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Windows category:
My favorite journey is looking out the window. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Work category:
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. (Edward Gorey)
Edward Gorey - From the Writing category:
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. (Edward Gorey)
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