"I have given up considering happiness as relevant."

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Source : Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

Edward Gorey

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“I don't concede that Guccifer is a Russian agent. Officials also said, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Just because the intelligence services say something, as we know from history, does not make it true.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.”
“The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult”

Source : Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”
“For me, almost always, the answer was cake.”

Source : Diana Abu-Jaber (2007). “The Language of Baklava”, p.186, Anchor
“You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.”
“To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.”
“On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.”
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”

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