Elfriede Jelinek Quotes

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• As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was…
• Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.
• Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
• Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
• I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
• It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
• My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
• I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity
• I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even…
• I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead
• Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
• I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.
• Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time…
• He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.
• Vice is basically the love of failure.
• Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things…
• you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we…
• Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is…
• The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
• My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words…

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