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

Tags: identity work



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Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion

Edward Gorey


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It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

Edward Gorey


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He wrote it all down Zealously.

Edward Gorey


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Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH:

A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'd
By your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shade
Below the garden...

His mind's eye sees them quoted on the bottom third of a right-hand page in a (possibly) olive-bound book he read at least five years ago. When he does find them, it will be a great nuisance if no clue is given to their authorship.

Edward Gorey

Tags: reading writing memory



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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

Tags: belief false-beliefs introjects



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The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.

Edward Gorey


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More is happening out there than we are aware of.
It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Edward Gorey


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I should like a parsley sandwich.
To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Edward Gorey


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The Baron told her that only art meant anything.

Edward Gorey

Tags: art



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