Shirley Ann Jackson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The moment that any life, however good, stifles you, you may be sure it isn't your real life.

  • I'd rather feel something for real than pretend it's not what it is.

  • For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.

  • Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived.

  • Structure is more important than content in the transmission of information.

  • Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  • The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.

  • The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

  • The human race has improved everything, but the human race.

  • If you're that obsessed with someone, why would you kill her? Humans are full of contradictions.