What did Shirley Jackson mean by: It watches,” he added suddenly. “The house. It watches every move you make. - Shirley Jackson Writer · USA Copy
+ For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Jackson, Mother, Worry, 0 - Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
+ I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Jackson, Believe, Detectives, 0 - Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
+ No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Jackson, Reality, 0 - Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
+ All cat stories start with this statement: “My mother, who was the first cat, told me this… Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Jackson, Cat, Mother, Stories, 0 - Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
+ in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Jackson, Believe, 0 - Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
+ So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you. Feraz Zeid, January 3, 2024January 10, 2024, Shirley Jackson, Hurt, Writing, 0 - Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Watch yourself all your life in a mirror and you’ll see Death at work like bees in a glass hive. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The ruins of a house may be repaired; why cannot those of the face? - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life? - Michel Foucault Philosopher and historian of ideas · France
Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies. - Jean Houston Scholar
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
