Shirley Jackson

(11 votes)   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.

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(10 votes)   Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.

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(9 votes)   I delight in what I fear.

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(9 votes)   Our major exports are books and children, both of which we produce in abundance. The children are Laurence, Joanne, Sarah and Carry.

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(9 votes)   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.

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(8 votes)   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.

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