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Elfriede Jelinek quotes: The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

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

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

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Money never goes out of fashion.

Money never goes out of fashion.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Trust is fine, but control is better.

Trust is fine, but control is better.

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

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

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

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: 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.

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

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

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.

There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Simple people ... listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.

Simple people ... listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

The problem is that it is difficult to translate.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.

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

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

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.

Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: For Erika, the most profound evidence of love is failure.

For Erika, the most profound evidence of love is failure.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Most expensive originals have cheap imitations.

Most expensive originals have cheap imitations.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Vice is basically the love of failure.

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.

Elfriede Jelinek quotes: The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight.

The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight.