Edward Gorey
Edward Gorey
Edward St. John Goreywas an American writer and artist noted for his illustrated books. His characteristic pen-and-ink drawings often depict vaguely unsettling narrative scenes in Victorian and Edwardian settings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth22 February 1925
CountryUnited States of America
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going-away important speak
Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.
going-away important facts
All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.
american-author
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
almost american-author boring dangerous floor given life open
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.
regret interviewers
Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one
circumstances happenings dues
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.
fashion passion excess
Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion
thinking might might-have-been
I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
fall way
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
today intention literal
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.
might might-have-been has-beens
What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.
nice thinking world
The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.
sandwiches parsley should
I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.
acting actresses necks
...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting.