{"author":"Shirley Jackson","author_id":"Shirley+Jackson","total_quotes":57,"quotes":[{"text":"I am going to put death in all their food and watch them die.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["hate"],"id":2551,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone. We'll have new rules and new ways of living. Maybe there'll be a law not to live in houses, so then no one can hide from anyone else, you see.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["society","suburbanization"],"id":12254,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"I was thinking that being a demon and a ghost must be very difficult, even for Charles; if he ever forgot, or let his disguise drop for a minute, he would be recognized at once and driven away; he must be extremely careful to use the same voice every time, and present the same face and the same manner without a slip; he must be constantly on guard against betraying himself. I wondered if he would turn back to his true self when he was dead.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["demons","foreboding","gothic","magic","pretense","suspicion"],"id":20786,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"Now, I have nothing against the public school system as it is presently organized, once you allow the humor of its basic assumption about how it is possible to teach things to children....","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["education","humor","school"],"id":23759,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"I delight in what I fear.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["delight "],"id":24467,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"It isn't fair, it isn't right,' Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["gothic","horror","short-story"],"id":31721,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.('The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith' - Version 1).","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["friends","loneliness","lonely"],"id":33810,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["afraid","fear","merricat","strangers"],"id":43373,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"In the country of the story the writer is king.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["writing"],"id":52187,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"},{"text":"Mrs. Arnold,' the doctor said, coming around the desk, 'we're not going to help things any this way.'What is going to help?' Mrs. Arnold said. 'Is everyone really crazy but me?'Mrs. Arnold,' the doctor said severely, 'I want you to get hold of yourself. In a disoriented world like ours today, alienation from reality frequently--'Disoriented,' Mrs. Arnold said. She stood up. 'Alienation,' she said. 'Reality.' Before the doctor could stop her she walked to the door and opened it. 'Reality,' she said, and went out.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["alienation","reality"],"id":77848,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}