"Vice is basically the love of failure." — Elfriede Jelinek
"Vice is basically the love of failure."
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Elfriede Jelinek
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23 Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek has 23 quotes on this site.
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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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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
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Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.
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Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result…
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Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
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It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
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