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Hills Quotes by Shirley Jackson
- Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.
- No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.…
- Gossip says she hanged herself from the turret on the tower, but when you have a house like Hill House with a tower and a…
- Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill…
- 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…
More Hills Quotes
- Every Democrat on Capitol Hill professes to be a fiscal hawk. — Bob Beauprez
- It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979. — Wendell Berry
- After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross. — Buffalo Bill
- In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians… — Daniel Boone
- October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more… — Hal Borland
- I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a… — Christina Aguilera
- Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass. — Rupert Brooke
- Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks
- Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from… — Julie Burchill
- It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel… — Christopher Alexander
- I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills. — David Byrne