"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."

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

Edward Gorey

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“With actors, normally I don't like to have any conversation about background and about motivations and all this.”
“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated.”
“In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.”
“It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.”
“Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.”

Source : Anne Bishop (2012). “The Voice: An Ephemera Novella (A Penguin Special from Roc)”, p.48, Penguin
“It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space”
“If you have faith in God, if you believe that God can use you, if you are willing to take a step of faith here and there, then God can do incredible things through you.”
“If the Conservative is less anxious than his Liberal brethren to increase Social Security â€˜benefits,â€™ it is because he is more anxious than his Liberal brethren that people be free throughout their lives to spend their earnings when and as they see fit”

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