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  • #1
    “Many were incarcerated with the aberrant prosaic possibilities of ataraxia. Only the mentally sensitive few were cognizant of the nuisance to serenity and an actuality that lacked a balance betwixt havoc and sangfroid. The intellectual capabilities of the excellent idiosyncratic talents of a man with an agog outlook for de minimis fringe entities had left the portal ajar for the enlightened few, to get a glimpse of the obsecure reality that most had decided to claim socratic ignorance to evade inquiries.”
    O.Z. Napaeae

  • #2
    Edward Gorey
    “I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. 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.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #3
    Edward Gorey
    “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

  • #4
    Edward Gorey
    “When people are finding meaning in things - beware.”
    Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

  • #5
    Edward Gorey
    “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

  • #6
    Edward Gorey
    “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

  • #7
    Edward Gorey
    “A is for Amy who fell down the stairs.
    B is for Basil assaulted by bears.
    C is for Clara who wasted away.
    D is for Desmond thrown out of a sleigh.
    E is for Ernest who choked on a peach.
    F is for Fanny sucked dry by a leech.

    G is for George smothered under a rug.
    H is for Hector done in by a thug.
    I is for Ida who drowned in a lake.
    J is for James who took lye by mistake.
    K is for Kate who was struck with an axe.
    L is for Leo who choked on some tacks.

    M is for Maud who was swept out to sea.
    N is for Neville who died of ennui.
    O is for Olive run through with an awl.
    P is for Prue trampled flat in a brawl.
    Q is for Quentin who sank on a mire.
    R is for Rhoda consumed by a fire.

    S is for Susan who perished of fits.
    T is for Titus who flew into bits.
    U is for Una who slipped down a drain.
    V is for Victor squashed under a train.
    W is for Winnie embedded in ice.
    X is for Xerxes devoured by mice.

    Y is for Yorick whose head was bashed in.
    Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.”
    Edward Gorey

  • #8
    Edward Gorey
    “What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.”
    Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

  • #9
    Edward Gorey
    “Interviewer: What is your greatest regret?
    Gorey: That I don't have one”
    Edward Gorey, Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey

  • #10
    Edward Gorey
    “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

  • #11
    Edward Gorey
    “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

  • #12
    Edward Gorey
    “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

  • #13
    Edward Gorey
    “I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty...”
    Edward Gorey, Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer

  • #14
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #15
    Oscar Wilde
    “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #17
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

  • #18
    Oscar Wilde
    “The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

  • #19
    Oscar Wilde
    “Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
    Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

  • #20
    Oscar Wilde
    “A good friend will always stab you in the front.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #21
    Oscar Wilde
    “I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #22
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #23
    Oscar Wilde
    “You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #25
    Oscar Wilde
    “I am not young enough to know everything.”
    Oscar Wilde
    tags: age

  • #26
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
    H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

  • #27
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
    H.P. Lovecraft

  • #28
    H.P. Lovecraft
    “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
    H. P. Lovecraft



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