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Elfriede Jelinek

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ELFRIEDE JELINEK After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy. He knows nothing about the discussi...
KNUT AHNLUND This very possibly has something to do with the fact that this week the academy will announce this y...
HORACE ENGDAHL A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat o...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. ...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Red...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started ...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy,
ELFRIEDE JELINEK The Academy may not want to give the prize to another young author
ELFRIEDE JELINEK depicting it as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel, 'Die Kinder der Toten.'
ELFRIEDE JELINEK was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels an...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of peo...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled,...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of peop...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't h...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann....
ELFRIEDE JELINEK When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not lit...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worri...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute ...
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...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something inste...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK Trust In Every Words,
And You Will Believe In Your Works.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
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AMIT RAY If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
T.S. ELIOT (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
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C. ANDREW If you don't set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.
JOEL OSTEEN She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what s...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
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MATTHEW HEINES The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.
ROBERT FALCON SCOTT I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.
TOM FORD Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
RICHARD CECIL I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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MONDLI MAKHANYA The trap is loneliness, and none of us escapes it. Not even me.
LEIGH BARDUGO At the end of the day, it's all about money.
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ANDREW DAVIDSON She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO I will thank God for the day and the moment I have.
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LORI CHAPPELL Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
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IRFA RAHAT he way up is through service,Sacrificial service - it is better to serve than to be served
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EXO BOOKS To Alef, the letter
that begins the alphabets
of both Arabic and Hebrew-
two Semitic ...
IBTISAM BARAKAT Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
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APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
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JANE SEYMOUR But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.
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EARL SWEATSHIRT At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.
KEVIN MITNICK At the end of the day I'm pleased with the site I created.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat o...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. ...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Red...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started ...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK After this I cannot even formally remain in the Swedish Academy,
ELFRIEDE JELINEK The Academy may not want to give the prize to another young author
ELFRIEDE JELINEK depicting it as a realm of death in her phantasmagorical novel, 'Die Kinder der Toten.'
ELFRIEDE JELINEK was made into an award-winning film, ''for her musical flow of voices and countervoices in novels an...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of peo...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK simple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled,...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of peop...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't h...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann....
ELFRIEDE JELINEK It (the selection of Jelinek) has done irreparable damage to the Nobel literature prize, both those ...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not lit...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worri...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute ...
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...
ELFRIEDE JELINEK The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something inste...
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