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| Shirley Jackson | |||||||||||||
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1919 - 1965 Novelist and short story writer. "THE LOTTERY," her best known work, is a great story, and in the mid-90s there was a television movie of the story that was pretty decent. |
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| "Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch." | |||||||||||||
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| "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." | |||||||||||||
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| POSTSCRIPT "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action." JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE |
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