Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?
--Shirley Jackson
Bridge is a game for the undivided intellect.
--Shirley Jackson
Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?
--Shirley Jackson
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.
--Shirley Jackson
For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time.
--Shirley Jackson
In all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.
--Shirley Jackson
It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a four-day vacation, the thin veneer of family unity wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.
--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
No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.
--Shirley Jackson
Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children...
--Shirley Jackson
So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.
--Shirley Jackson
The first book is the book you have to write to get back at your parents; the book you always had in you. Once you get that out of your way, you can start writing books.
--Shirley Jackson
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.
--Shirley Jackson
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
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