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Elfriede Jelinek quotes

American Playwright, Critic, Poet October 20, 1946

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Elfriede Jelinek quote: "Vice is basically the love of failure."
Vice is basically the love of failure. Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek quote: "I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an..."
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity. Elfriede Jelinek
perfectly happy momma goes out into the fields. she eavesdrops on herself, in case somewhere deep inside a melody rings out or a blackbird sings, but all that she hears, is only the cancer, which saws and eats away at her. 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. 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. Elfriede Jelinek
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 I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak. Elfriede Jelinek
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 exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award. Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek quote: "He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books."
He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books. Elfriede Jelinek
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 a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. Elfriede Jelinek
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 lightheartedness, in my writing. Elfriede Jelinek
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek quote: "My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to..."
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language. Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek quote: "I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity,"..."
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak. Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek quote: "It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony..."
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease. Elfriede Jelinek
Elfriede Jelinek quote: "I do not fight against men, but against the system that is..."
I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist. Elfriede Jelinek

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