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Gorey first blipped across the cultural radar in 1959, when the literary critic Edmund Wilson introduced New Yorker readers to his work. “I find that I cannot remember to have seen a single printed word about the books of Edward Gorey,”
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“It seemed to be raising a piece of me that had been forgotten, something stifled inside me, a piece that on coming free levered up another, and so on and so on, down to the last lost piece, the furthest fallen, as good as buried—the one called "mother.”
― The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
― The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
“And the tense little smile that lingered on my face seemed to fire his eyes with a wild gleam, like you see in dogs before they attack. Until that moment, I'd never been hit before.”
― The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
― The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
“Death has been kind to me, I thought. I haven't been run over by a lorry. I haven't fallen to a stray bullet. I have not been hastened toward death—rather, death has only dreamed of me; it has only knocked at my door. Tap, tap, tap. "I'm thinking of coming for you tonight at nightfall," death had said.”
― The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
― The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
“There's nothing easier than learning to hate women. There is no shortage of teachers. Fathers teach it, the state teaches it, the legal system teaches it, the market teaches it, and culture, and propaganda.”
― The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
― The Simple Art of Killing a Woman
“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content”
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