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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

Topics: Construction Kinds Makes More Society Solidarity Substitute Susceptible

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I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Against Fight Men Sexist System

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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

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

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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

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

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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

Topics: About Between Child Did Ever Felt Hand Loner Me More Most Other Parents Read Said Upbringing Well-Known Which World Writers

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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

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

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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

Topics: Any Could Develop Ease Even Extent Feeling Future Greater Influence Material Will Without Worries Writing

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It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Could Develop Draw Ease Even Freedom Greater Irony Reservoir

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I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Eternity Feeling Speak Want Writing

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I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Greatest Isolation Obstacle Political Problems Solidarity Think I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: October 20th, 1946

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