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Shirley Jackson
"A pretty sight, a lady with a book." --
Source : Shirley Jackson (2010). “Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches”
Shirley Jackson
#Book Quotes
#Sight Quotes
“I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.”
“Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.”
“Frasier and Friends and Seinfeld, they all pissed each other off, said the wrong thing, drove each other nuts, but in the end, it turns out they'd do anything for their friends. TV Land has really found that formula.”
“Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.”
“Keep computations to the lowest level of the multiplication table.”
“Irri and Jhiqui argued about Rakharo. “You are too skinny for him,†Jhiqui was saying. “You are almost a boy. Rakharo does not bed with boys. This is known.†Irri bristled back. “It is known that you are almost a cow. Rakharo does not bed with cows.”
“Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.”
“The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.”
