15 Elfriede Jelinek Quotes for You to Enjoy

Elfriede Jelinek

American Playwright

Born: Oct 20, 1946

Am Language Me People Speak Writing

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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

Work Woman Value Through Chat Greatest Becomes Still Permitted Authority Famous Public Transgression Speaking Who Her Babble

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds. Elfriede Jelinek

Construction Society Solidarity Paradoxically Kinds More Makes Susceptible Substitute

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

Time Me Face Society Panorama Would Would-Be Masks New Employing Linguistic Same Same Time Formal Literature While Modes Whole Exposing Tearing Award Expression Deserving Keeps Draft

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

Music Me Training Words Speak Language Will Example Musical Kind Composition True For Example True Meaning Sound Led Process Which Against Meaning Then Expose Play

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable. Elfriede Jelinek

Government Made Once Acceptable Again Right Socially

My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language. Elfriede Jelinek

Language Made Long Similar Prose Up Which Working Plays Monologues

I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input. Elfriede Jelinek

People Wonderful Internet Everyone Input Find Most Wonderful Thing Connects Thing

It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet. Elfriede Jelinek

Internet Democratic Method Text Wonderfully Publishing

As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much. Elfriede Jelinek

Long Books Miss Much

I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise. Elfriede Jelinek

Time Paradise Year Nothing Write Take Want Really

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

War Ways Charged Unrest Football Football Match Sport Became Match Metaphor Ended Nationalist After Former Then Yugoslavia Started Violence Associate

The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. is vast. It's too large. The intellectuals hide out in enclaves, in big cities or universities, like a bunch of chickens hiding from a fox. Elfriede Jelinek

People Hide Big Group Too Easier Enter Hiding Out Cities More More People Vast Argue Smaller Like Big Cities Intellectuals Chickens Bunch Discussions Large Fox Universities

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