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Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey QUOTES

1 " 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 , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

2 " When people are finding meaning in things - beware. "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

3 " What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed. "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

5 " 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 , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

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

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

9 " ...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 , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

10 " 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 , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

11 " I think there should be a little bit of uneasiness in everything, because I do think we're all really in a sense living on the edge. So much of life is inexplicable. . . . The things that happen to you are usually the things that you haven't thought of or that come absolutely out of nowhere. And all you can do is cope with them when they turn up. "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

12 " . . . when I talk to people I really like to talk to them, and not just exchange pleasantries and wonder which of us is going to try to get away first. Most social occasions leave me less than enthralled. "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

13 " More and more, I think you should have no expectations and do everything for its own sake. That way you won't be hit in the head quite so frequently. "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

14 " . . . I just don't think humanity is the ultimate end. We're so smug about ourselves, secure about how much we know. Well, I've lived with cats most of my life, so I'm very aware that there's another world going on. . . . it sees everything differently, hears everything differently, and probably thinks differently. "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

15 " I've got an apartment that consists of nothing but books; on the other hand, I don't collect. It's a mania to buy books. I can't go out without buying a book. But it would never occur to me to collect. I collect authors because obviously I want all their work, but this business of first editions and that whole thing doesn't strike me. "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

16 " [On his childhood] I'm sure mine was happier than I imagine in retrospect. I look back and think, "Oh poetic me," but it simply was not true. I was out playing Kick-the-Can along with everyone else. "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

17 " What obsesses me more than anything in the world . . . is why some things happen and why other things don't. It doesn't seem to me there is any logic, any way of . . . you know . . . "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

18 " I always feel that other people's lives are filled with meaning. You look at them on the street and think how real their lives must be. Of course, you also know that isn't true. "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

19 " [On his childhood] You know, I would like to think that I was much more poetic and sensitive than anybody else, but I don't think it was true. "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

20 " ...he details everything around the beauty and excitement, which is enough to evoke it again for each of us, in the mind's eye, the gut, the secret heart, or wherever one's most vivid, passionate, lyric, and lavender images are stored. - Tobi Tobias, "Balletgorey "

― Edward Gorey , Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey