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Shirley Jackson Quotes

1916–1965 United States

Shirley Hardie Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American writer known for her works of horror and mystery. Over her writing career, which spanned more than two decades, she composed six novels, two memoirs, and over 200 short stories.

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Also known as: Jackson, Shirley

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Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Harcraft's Twentieth Century Authors (1954)

Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.

The Haunting of Hill House (1959)

Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.

The Lottery (1948)

Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?

The Bird's Nest (1954)

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.

The Lottery (1948)

"Some places have already quit lotteries." Mrs. Adams said.
"Nothing but trouble in that," Old Man Warner said stoutly. "Pack of young fools."

The Lottery (1948)

All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…"

We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Shirley Jackson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.