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

Tags: smoking cigarettes



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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

Tags: rain new-england snow weather sleet



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

Edward Gorey


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Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.

Edward Gorey

Tags: strange



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I suppose it was obvious that The Loathsome Couple was based on the Moors Murders, which disturbed me very greatly for some reason.

Edward Gorey

Tags: moors ian-brady moors-murders myra-hindley the-moors-murders



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let's take the time that has been given to us and find that clock.

Edward Gorey


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The Suicide, as she is falling,
Illuminated by the moon,
Regrets her act, and finds appalling
The thought she will be dead so soon.

Edward Gorey

Tags: suicide edward-gorey



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Mr Earbrass escaped from Messrs Scuffle and Dustcough, who were most anxious to go into all the ramifications of a scheme for having his novels translated into Urdu, and went to call on a distant cousin.

Edward Gorey

Tags: urdu



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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

Tags: words



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I have given up considering happiness as relevant.

Edward Gorey

Tags: happiness



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