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Shirley Jackson, née le 14 décembre 1916 à San Francisco en Californie et morte le 8 août 1965 à North Bennington dans le Vermont, est une romancière américaine, spécialiste du récit fantastique et d'horreur, et auteure du roman policier Nous avons toujours vécu au château. Son livre Maison hantée est tenu par Stephen King pour l'un des meilleurs romans fantastiques du XXe siècle. Wikipedia

✵ 14. décembre 1916 – 8. août 1965  •  Autres noms 雪莉·傑克森, شرلی جکسن, შირლი ჯექსონი

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Shirley Jackson: Citations en anglais

“No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House

“Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Lottery

Source: The Lottery (1948)

“Why do people want to talk to each other? I mean, what are the things people always want to find out about other people?”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House

“Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House

“Oh Constance, we are so happy.”

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Shirley Jackson livre We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Today my winged horse is coming and I am carrying you off to the moon and on the moon we will eat rose petals.”

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Shirley Jackson livre We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
Contexte: This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.

“Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.”

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Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Harcraft's Twentieth Century Authors (1954)

“The children assembled first, of course. School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Lottery

The Lottery (1948)

“No human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned Hill House into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of Hill House seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Haunting of Hill House

Source: The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Ch. 2

“Old Man Warner snorted. "Pack of crazy fools, he said. "Listening to the young folks, nothing's good enough for them. Next thing you know, they'll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live that way for a while. Used to be a saying about 'Lottery in June, corn be heavy soon.' First thing you know, we'd all be eating stewed chickweed and acorns. There's always been a lottery," he added petulantly.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Lottery

The Lottery (1948)

“One of the most terrifying aspects of publishing stories and books is the realization that they are going to be read, and read by strangers. I had never fully realized this before, although I had of course in my imagination dwelt lovingly upon the thought of the millions and millions of people who were going to be uplifted and enriched and delighted by the stories I wrote. It had simply never occurred to me that these the millions and millions of people might be so far from being uplifted that they would sit down and write me letters I was downright scared to open; of the three-hundred-odd letters that I received that summer I can count only thirteen that spoke kindly to me, and they were mostly from friends. Even my mother scolded me: "Dad and I did not care at all for your story in The New Yorker," she wrote sternly; "it does seem, dear, that this gloomy kind of story is what all you young people think about these days. Why don't you write something to cheer people up?"”

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Lecture (1960); printed in her collection, Come Along with Me (1968)

“Bill Hutchinson went over to his wife and forced the slip of paper out of her hand. It had a black spot on it, the black spot Mr. Summers had made the night before with the heavy pencil in the coal company office. Bill Hutchinson held it up, and there was a stir in the crowd.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Lottery

The Lottery (1948)

“"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Lottery

The Lottery (1948)

“Cocoa? Cocoa! Damn miserable puny stuff, fit for kittens and unwashed boys. Did Shakespeare drink cocoa?”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Bird's Nest

The Bird's Nest (1954)

“Certainly there are spots which inevitably attach to themselves an atmosphere of holiness and goodness; it might not then be too fanciful to say that some houses are born bad.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Haunting of Hill House

Dr. Montague
The Haunting of Hill House (1959)

“"Some places have already quit lotteries." Mrs. Adams said.
"Nothing but trouble in that," Old Man Warner said stoutly. "Pack of young fools."”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Lottery

The Lottery (1948)

“Explaining just what I had hoped the story to say is very difficult. I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with a graphic dramatization of the pointless violence and general inhumanity in their own lives.”

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Regarding her story The Lottery, in the San Francisco Chronicle (22 July 1948)

“Some places have already quit lotteries.”

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Shirley Jackson livre The Lottery

Mrs. Adams said.
"Nothing but trouble in that," Old Man Warner said stoutly. "Pack of young fools."
The Lottery (1948)

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