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

— Shirley Jackson The Lottery (1948)

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More quotes by Shirley Jackson

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)

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)

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