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Elfriede Jelinek

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I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead. - Elfriede Jelinek
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Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. - Elfriede Jelinek
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I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak. - Elfriede Jelinek
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It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease. - Elfriede Jelinek
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I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people. - Elfriede Jelinek
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I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity. - Elfriede Jelinek
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When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side. - Elfriede Jelinek
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A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression. - Elfriede Jelinek
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As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad. - Elfriede Jelinek
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The government has once again made the right socially acceptable. - 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 was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world. - Elfriede Jelinek
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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
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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
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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
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I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence. - Elfriede Jelinek
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