"Anna despises two classes of people: first, those……" — Elfriede Jelinek
"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 on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop."
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Elfriede Jelinek
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23 Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek
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As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child…
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Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.
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Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
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Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
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I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
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It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
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My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
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I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity
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I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could…
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I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead
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Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds
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I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.
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Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but…
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.…
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Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room…
— Bill Maher
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On Sergei Fedorov's breaking three sticks on Dallas players: I don't know if Anna (Kournikova) told him to get tougher…
— Mike Modano
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The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.
— Anna Wintour
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My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.
— Cornelia Funke
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But I want to pay tribute to Anna Lee Woodruff, an extraordinary, selfless woman and beautiful grandmother who in her…
— Judy Woodruff
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Women like Pamela Harriman and Patricia Duff are basically Anna Nicole Smith from the waist down. Let's just call it…
— Ann Coulter
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Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband.…
— Hanif Kureishi
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Here thou, great Anna! Whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.
— Alexander Pope
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The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums;…
— Sue Margolis
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Throughout my reading life, I've enjoyed many memorable meals-if only fictionally. The oysters at dinner near the beginning of Anna…
— Alexander Chee
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