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Edward St. John Gorey (February 22, 1925 – April 15, 2000) was 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.

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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.

Idiotic, Nice, Thinking, Twice, World

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Aware, Circumstance, Circumstances, Dues, Happenings, Possibly

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, Sleet, Snow, Think, Thinking

I feel that I am doing the minimum amount of damage to other possibilities that may take place in a reader's head.

Damage, May, Possibilities, Possibility, Take

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, Say, Writer

I realize that homosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is - but then, of course, heterosexuality is a serious problem for anyone who is, too. And being a man is a serious problem and being a woman is, too. Lots of things are problems.

Course, Heterosexuality, Heterosexuality Is, Men, Serious, Woman

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

Existed, Has Beens, Might, Might Have Been

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Drank, Gin, Too Much, Zillah

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

Everyday, Odd, Say, Think, Thinking, Writing

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, Burst, Following, Light, Seemed, Tears

Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.

Iceland, Particularly, Past, Present, Prospects, Thinking

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

Enough, God, God Knows, Things, Worry

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

Might, Might Have Been, Think, Thinking

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.

Boredom, Boring, Same, Think, Thinking, Writing

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.

Awfully, Believe, Brought, Long, Realize, Realizing

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

Mad, Path, Tiny, Wrath

It's well we cannot hear the screams we make in other people's dreams.

Dream, Dreams, Make, People, Scream, Screams

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

Creep, Creeps, Drawing, Drawn, Might, Prepared

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

Contrary, Despite, Evidence, Know

Vice is nice, but a little virtue won't hurt you.

Hurt, Nice, Vice, Vices

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