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Shirley Jackson
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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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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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Fear, the doctor said, is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.
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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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The number of people who expected Mrs. Hutchinson to win a Bendix washer would amaze you.
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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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I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.
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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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For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.
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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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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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The sight of one's own heart is degrading people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.
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I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.
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It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.
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Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
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We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.
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Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.
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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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