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.

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