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

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Nothing Paradise Really Take Time Want Write Year I Can

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It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Display Me Person Public Put Suit

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I don't do what I do willingly, but I have to do it.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Willingly

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I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Cast Gaze Men Seek Where Women

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My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Redemption is the speciality of other authors, male and female.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Also Authors Depicting Female Horrors Limited Male Other Reality Redemption Writings

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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

Topics: Always Literature Powerful Side Tried Weak Write I Write

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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

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

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It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Art Civilisation Democracy Events Historical Interesting People Precedes Through Treatment

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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

Topics: Also Bad Catalyst Cause Civilisation Counter Football Good Kind Much Peace War Well

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I am a sort of justice fanatic, and I always have to give a voice to those who get a raw deal.

~Elfriede Jelinek

Topics: Always Am Deal Fanatic Get Give Justice Raw Sort Those Voice Who I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Playwright

Born: October 20th, 1946

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