What did Shirley Jackson mean by: No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. Shirley Jackson Writer · USA Copy
All cat stories start with this statement: “My mother, who was the first cat, told me this… Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Shirley Jackson, Legacy, Origin, Tradition, 0 Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Shirley Jackson, Belief, Diversity, Universalism, 0 Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
I came to believe that being a private detective was the work I was meant to do. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Shirley Jackson, Destiny, Purpose, Vocation, 0 Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
For plain and fancy worrying, give me a new mother every time. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Shirley Jackson, Motherhood, Support, Worry, 0 Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Shirley Jackson, Coping, Expression, Resilience, 0 Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
It watches,” he added suddenly. “The house. It watches every move you make. Author, January 3, 2024January 1, 2025, Shirley Jackson, Control, Paranoia, Surveillance, 0 Shirley Jackson Writer · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it. Read explanation Jean Fautrier Painter · France
Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality Jean Rousset
