Best Quotes by Elfriede Jelinek (Top 10)

  1. Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.
  2. Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
  3. He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.
  4. Vice is basically the love of failure.
  5. Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.
  6. Anna despises two classes of people: first, those who own their own homes and have cars and families, and second, everybody else. Constantly she is on the verge of exploding. With rage. A pool of pure red. The pool is filled with speechlessness that talks away at her nonstop.
  7. Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
  8. The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
  9. you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.
  10. 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.

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