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where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.


Edward Gorey

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EDWARD DAHLBERG The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ...
EDWARD BLISHEN By night an atheist half believes in God.
EDWARD YOUNG You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine h...
EDWARD DAHLBERG Our birth is nothing but our death begun.
EDWARD YOUNG If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think po...
EDWARD RICKENBACKER Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders...
EDWARD HOAGLAND You know...that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum -- a canvas -- a ...
EDWARD STEICHEN I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
EDWARD DAHLBERG We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
EDWARD GIBBON Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manife...
EDWARD HOAGLAND There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of ...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG