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Shirley Jackson quotes

American Novelist December 14, 1919 – August 8, 1965

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It is not proven that Elizabeth's person equilibrium was set off balance by the slant of the office floor, nor could it be proven that it was Elizabeth who pushed the building off its foundations, but it is undeniable that they began to slip at about the same time. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the..."
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. Shirley Jackson
At my age an hour's reading before bedtime is essential, and I wisely brought Pamela with me. If any of you has trouble sleeping, I will read aloud to you. I never yet knew anyone who could not fall asleep with Richardson being read aloud to him. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped..."
Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me. Shirley Jackson
I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village. Shirley Jackson
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. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "It is not possible, I frequently think, to walk down the..."
It is not possible, I frequently think, to walk down the street as fast as you can and kick yourself at the same time. Shirley Jackson
I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to..."
We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was..."
All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this... Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a..."
There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out. Shirley Jackson
Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar. Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in..."
Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep? Down in the boneyard ten feet deep! Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson quote: "It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every..."
It watches," he added suddenly. "The house. It watches every move you make. Shirley Jackson
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Shirley Jackson

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