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Shirley Jackson : It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities. # America # Family # Belief

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Karl A Hakkarainen : " No vacation goes unpunished. " # America # Family # Belief

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Morris Fishbein : " A vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work. " # America # Family # Belief

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Elbert Hubbard : " No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. " # America # Family # Belief

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Kin Hubbard : " If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation. " # America # Family # Belief

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Source Unknown : " The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. " # America # Family # Belief

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Gail Parent : " Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe. " # America # Family # Belief

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Jean Baudrillard : " Holidays are in no sense an alternative to the congestion and bustle of cities and work. Quite the contrary. People look to escape into an intensification of the conditions of ordinary life, into a deliberate aggravation of those conditions: further from nature, nearer to artifice, to abstraction, to total pollution, to well above average levels of stress, pressure, concentration and monotony -- this is the ideal of popular entertainment. No one is interested in overcoming alienation; the point is to plunge into it to the point of ecstasy. That is what holidays are for. " # America # Family # Belief

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Ching Ning Chu : " Acquire the courage to believe in yourself. Many of the things that you have been taught were at one time the radical ideas of individuals who had the courage to believe what their own hearts and minds told them was true, rather than accept the common beliefs of their day. " # America # Family # Belief

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Paul Wellstone : " There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. " # America # Family # Belief

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Source Unknown : " The alternative to a vacation is to stay home and tip every third person you see. " # America # Family # Belief

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John Updike : " We hope the "real" person behind the words will be revealed as ignominiously as a shapeless snail without its shapely shell. " # America # Family # Belief

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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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