"Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books."

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Source : Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.127, Penguin

Shirley Jackson

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rooms Quotes

“A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.”
“I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.”
“The red I wear is Indiana's red, not Moscow's red. Indiana was here long before communism.”
“Part of me didn't know if Australia wanted its champion to be gay.”

Source : "Ian Thorpe: I'm finally comfortable saying I'm a gay man" by Amanda Meade, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2014.
“You just never know with contract situations and the whole business side of it. I'm here now and I'm happy to be here now. The future will take care of itself.”
“I didn't change the world.”
“Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take with us.”
“Most of my comedy writing happens through improvisation on stage; doing it in the moment.”

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