Shirley Jackson Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Shirley Jackson:

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.
~Shirley Jackson


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I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.
~Shirley Jackson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shirley-jackson-quotes/#fbaeebe7

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.
~Shirley Jackson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shirley-jackson-quotes/#8d997e3a

Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.
~Shirley Jackson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shirley-jackson-quotes/#76f2f2fb

I delight in what I fear.
~Shirley Jackson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/shirley-jackson-quotes/#77f44159

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