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“Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.”
Quelle: The Haunting of Hill House
“Oh Constance, we are so happy.”
Quelle: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Quelle: The Haunting of Hill House (1959)
Kontext: This house, which seemed somehow to have formed itself, flying together into its own powerful pattern under the hands of its builders, fitting itself into its own construction of lines and angles, reared its great head back against the sky without concession to humanity. It was a house without kindness, never meant to be lived in, not a fit place for people or for love or for hope. Exorcism cannot alter the countenance of a house; Hill House would stay as it was until it was destroyed.
“Life Among the Savages is a disrespectful memoir of my children.”
Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Harcraft's Twentieth Century Authors (1954)
Lecture (1960); printed in her collection, Come Along with Me (1968)
“"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her.”
The Lottery (1948)
Regarding her story The Lottery, in the San Francisco Chronicle (22 July 1948)
“Some places have already quit lotteries.”
Mrs. Adams said.
"Nothing but trouble in that," Old Man Warner said stoutly. "Pack of young fools."
The Lottery (1948)
