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The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
— Elfriede Jelinek
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build on it if I were you.
— Elfriede Jelinek
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
— Elfriede Jelinek
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Money never goes out of fashion.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Trust is fine, but control is better.
— Elfriede Jelinek
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
— Elfriede Jelinek
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.
— Elfriede Jelinek
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.
— Elfriede Jelinek
I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
— Elfriede Jelinek
There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Simple people ... listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.
— Elfriede Jelinek
The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
— Elfriede Jelinek
He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.
— Elfriede Jelinek
I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Erika glides down into the warmth, the body-warm brook of shame, a bath in which one submerges cautiously because the water is rather dirty.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.
— Elfriede Jelinek
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
— Elfriede Jelinek
For Erika, the most profound evidence of love is failure.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Most expensive originals have cheap imitations.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Vice is basically the love of failure.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.
— Elfriede Jelinek
