"Every day, a piece of music, a short……" — Elfriede Jelinek
"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 that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive."
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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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