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Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey

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“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.”

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

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

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

“If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.”

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