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Shirley Jackson – amerykańska pisarka.

Studiowała na University of Rochester i Syracuse University, gdzie wydawała kampusowe pismo humorystyczne, po ukończeniu studiów w 1940 zamieszkała w Nowym Jorku. Zaczęła publikować w "New Yorkerze", "Redbooku", "The Saturday Evening Post" i "The Ladies' Home Journal", w 1948 wydała swoją pierwszą powieść, The Road Through The Wall. W tym samym roku opublikowała w "New Yorkerze" opowiadanie Loteria. Jej późniejsze powieści to m.in. Poskramianie demonów i Zawsze mieszkałyśmy w zamku - powieści grozy, których bohaterami są psychopaci, okultyści i mordercy. Jest również autorką scenariuszy, esejów i książek dla dzieci. Zmarła z powodu niewydolności serca.

✵ 14. Grudzień 1916 – 8. Sierpień 1965  •  Natępne imiona 雪莉·傑克森, شرلی جکسن, შირლი ჯექსონი
Shirley Jackson: 51 cytatów0 Polubień

Shirley Jackson cytaty

„Żaden żywy organizm nie może istnieć zbyt długo w warunkach absolutnej rzeczywistości, nie popadając w szaleństwo; są tacy, którzy twierdzą, że nawet skowronki i pasikoniki mają jakieś sny.”

Shirley Jackson

Źródło: Dom na wzgórzu

„Ludzie sentymentalni twierdzą, że kobiety rodzą trzecie dziecko, bo lubią małe dzieci, ale cynicy mówią, że każda matka dwojga zdrowych, aktywnych dzieciaków oddałaby wszystko za dziesięć spokojnych dni w szpitalu.”

Shirley Jackson

Źródło: Życie wśród dzikusów, tłum. Mira Michałowska

Shirley Jackson: Cytaty po angielsku

“Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?”

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Shirley Jackson książka The Haunting of Hill House

Źródło: The Haunting of Hill House

“On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”

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Shirley Jackson książka The Haunting of Hill House

Źródło: The Haunting of Hill House

“A pretty sight, a lady with a book.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”

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Shirley Jackson książka The Haunting of Hill House

Źródło: The Haunting of Hill House

“I can't help it when people are frightened," says Merricat. "I always want to frighten them more.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”

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Shirley Jackson książka The Haunting of Hill House

Źródło: The Haunting of Hill House

“Fate intervened. Some of us, that day, she led inexorably through the gates of death. Some of us, innocent and unsuspecting, took, unwillingly, that one last step to oblivion. Some of us took very little sugar.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“All cat stories start with this statement: "My mother, who was the first cat, told me this…”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.”

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Shirley Jackson książka The Haunting of Hill House

Źródło: The Haunting of Hill House

“I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“I shall weave a suit of leaves. At once. With acorns for buttons.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“All I could think of when I got a look at the place from the outside was what fun it would be to stand out there and watch it burn down.”

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Shirley Jackson książka The Haunting of Hill House

Źródło: The Haunting of Hill House

“Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”

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Shirley Jackson książka The Haunting of Hill House

Źródło: The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Ch. 1
Kontekst: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.

“I wonder if I could eat a child if I had the chance.'
'I doubt if I could cook one,' said Constance.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“When shall we live if not now?”

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Shirley Jackson książka The Sundial

Źródło: The Sundial

“On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea?
Oh no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me.
Merricat, said Connie, would you like to go to sleep?
Down in the boneyard ten feet deep!”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a turret, gossip would hardly allow you to hang yourself anywhere else.”

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Shirley Jackson książka The Haunting of Hill House

Źródło: The Haunting of Hill House

“We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.”

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Shirley Jackson książka We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Źródło: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

“God! Whose hand was I holding?”

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Shirley Jackson książka The Haunting of Hill House

Źródło: The Haunting of Hill House

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