Quotes by Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey

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

Acting

Actresses

Necks

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.

Rain

Snow

Thinking

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

Important

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.

Facts

Going Away

Important

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

Book

Cat

Life Is Good

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

Going Away

Important

Speak

God knows, there’s enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

Enough

God Knows

Worry

Having got into bed and turned out the light, I quietly burst into tears because I am not a good person. As they came and went for some minutes, I was concerned with the words following ‘because’ in the previous sentence, rewriting them over and over in my head until they seemed to be as close to the truth as it was possible for me to make them.

Bed

Light

Tears

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.

Artist

Doe

Identity

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

Contrary

Despite

Evidence

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Acting

Actresses

Art

Artist

Awful

Bed

Believe

Black

Book

Boredom

Boring

Cat

Children

Circumstances

Considering

Contrary

Crazy

Creeps

Damage

Despite

Distance

Doe

Drank

Drawing

Dream

Dues

Enough

Everyday

Evidence

Excess

Facts

Fall

Fashion

Findings

Firsts

Folly

Gin

Given

God Knows

Going Away

Happenings

Has Beens

Height

Helpful

Heterosexuality Is

Hurt

Iceland

Identity

Ifs

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Quotes by Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey

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

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.

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

Books, Cats, Life is Good.

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

God knows, there’s enough to worry about without worrying about worrying about things.

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.

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

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