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Shirley Jackson : "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her. # Death and Dying

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Shirley Jackson: " "Some places have already quit lotteries." Mrs. Adams said. "Nothing but trouble in that," Old Man Warner said stoutly. "Pack of young fools."" # Marriage # Fools and Foolishness # Politicians and Politics

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Shirley Jackson: " 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." # Creativity # Books - Reading # Acting and Actors

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Shirley Jackson: " Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children." # Autobiography # Children # Life and Living

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Shirley Jackson: " 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?"" # Books - Reading # Friends and Friendship # Writers and Writing

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Shirley Jackson: " 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." # Liberty # Children # Love

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Shirley Jackson: " Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. There was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it, the one that had been constructed when the first people settled down to make a village here. Every year, after the lottery, Mr. Summers began talking again about a new box, but every year the subject was allowed to fade off without anything's being done. The black box grew shabbier each year: by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained." # Marriage # Love # Books - Reading

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Shirley Jackson: " 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 hat 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." # Marriage # Love # Work

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Shirley Jackson: " 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." # Writers and Writing # Love # Energy

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Shirley Jackson: " Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones." # Originality # Love # Acting and Actors

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Shirley Jackson: " "It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her." # Death and Dying

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