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Gorey, who straddled Taoism and Dadaism, irony and existentialist angst, made a career of defying dualisms, in the course of which he produced works that managed to be both marvelous and pointless, serious and frivolous.
The essence of Gorey
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus
“My favorite journey is looking out the window.”
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“A library after closing is a lonely place. It is heart-poundingly silent, and the rows of shelves create an almost unfathomable number of dark and creepy corners.”
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“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.”
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