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Shirley Jackson
Age: 48 †
Born: 1916
Born: December 14
Died: 1965
Died: September 8
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San Francisco County
California
Shirley Hardie Jackson
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Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
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He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient he is simply not very interesting.
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In ten years I will be a beautiful charming lovely lady writer without any husband or children but lots of lovers and everyone will read the books I write and want to marry me but I will never marry any of them. I will have lots of money and jewels too.
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It watches, he added suddenly. The house. It watches every move you make.
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We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.
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It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.
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I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
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February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
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All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.
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I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
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You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?
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Oh Constance, we are so happy.
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We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.
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I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.
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Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.
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in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.
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The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.
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For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.
Shirley Jackson
Wear your boots if you wander today
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I can't help it when people are frightened, says Merricat. I always want to frighten them more.
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