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In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don__ think I like reality very much. Principally, I don__ understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.
Shirley Jackson Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings
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In my own experience, contacts with the big world outside the typewriter are puzzling and terrifying; I don__ think I like reality very much. Principally, I don__ understand people outside; people in books are sensible and reasonable, but outside there is no predicting what they will do.
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Shirley Jackson

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