"I would gladly do it but I am……" — Elfriede Jelinek
"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."
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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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Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others.
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God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot…
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