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Shirley Jackson

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Shirley Jackson Quotes

Total quotes: 5

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Shirley Jackson

Fictional Character

AKA: Shirley Jackson

Birthday: December 14, 1916

Death: August 8, 1965

Educated At: University Of Rochester, Brighton High School, Syracuse University

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Non-fiction Writer, Journalist, Children's Writer, Novelist, Writer

Spouse: Stanley Edgar Hyman

Total quotes: 5

“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 to take it whole and work from there… I delight in what I fear.”

— Shirley Jackson, Ladies Laughing: Wit as Control in Contemporary American Women Writers: 3 (Studies in Humor & Gender Vol 3)

Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us

“A clean house is evidence of mental inferiority.”

— Shirley Jackson, Shirley

Tagged: Clean House , mental, inferior, sign

“Do you know what it's like to have a secret?”

— Shirley Jackson, Shirley

Tagged: Secret, Question, pressure

“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”

— Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle:(Penguin Orange Collection)

Tagged: Horror Stories, Death, scary

“Anyone has a right to run away.”

— Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)

Tagged: Running Away, For when things seem hard

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