Top 57 Jelinek Quotes
#1. That was the first time I ever saw Anton Jelinek.
Willa Cather
#2. If you are sitting on a felled tree in a pine forest enjoying the sunshine you can easily forget what time it is. Not that you could forget your gold watch, just the time of day.
Elfriede Jelinek
#3. The ignorant majority, which does however possess one thing in abundance: It is raring for a fight.
Elfriede Jelinek
#4. The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. Communists took advantage of supply problems and stirred up gullible people against their very own country.
Elfriede Jelinek
#5. Perfectly happy momma goes out into the fields. she eavesdrops on herself, in case somewhere deep inside a melody rings out or a blackbird sings, but all that she hears, is only the cancer, which saws and eats away at her.
Elfriede Jelinek
#6. 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.
Elfriede Jelinek
#7. Her body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.
Elfriede Jelinek
#8. 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
#9. The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
Elfriede Jelinek
#10. I only enjoy what I can see, because I don't feel anything. For example, your new wallpaper. I like it and it can stay, it's quiet and it keeps quiet at least. Luckily I don't have to feel it, just see it.
Elfriede Jelinek
#14. I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead.
Elfriede Jelinek
#15. Only the TV sounds are real, they are the actual events. All the people around here experience the same things at the same time, except for some loner, who switches to the educational channel.
Elfriede Jelinek
#16. Simple people ... listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.
Elfriede Jelinek
#17. Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their parents, who know nothing about art - only that it exists.
Elfriede Jelinek
#18. Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
Elfriede Jelinek
#19. 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.
Elfriede Jelinek
#21. Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.
Elfriede Jelinek
#22. Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.
Elfriede Jelinek
#23. 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
#24. Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!
Elfriede Jelinek
#26. Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
Elfriede Jelinek
#27. No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
Elfriede Jelinek
#30. 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
#31. 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.
Elfriede Jelinek
#32. I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
Elfriede Jelinek
#33. Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
Elfriede Jelinek
#34. 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
#35. She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.
Elfriede Jelinek
#36. Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.
Elfriede Jelinek
#37. I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
Elfriede Jelinek
#38. I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
Elfriede Jelinek
#39. It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.
Elfriede Jelinek
#40. The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall, windows to the outer world: The mob wants to be seen.
Elfriede Jelinek
#41. Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
Elfriede Jelinek
#43. There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.
Elfriede Jelinek
#45. Everyone wants to look for something of their own, a house of their own, a child of their own, a partner of their own, entirely for themselves alone. No one is satisfied with a room of their own any more.
Elfriede Jelinek
#46. I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.
Elfriede Jelinek
#47. 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
#48. Let me write it down, quite unambiguously: paper could cut me open as a paper knife slits paper. I'd like to meet the person who could make a new woman of me out of the things I say.
Elfriede Jelinek
#49. The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.
Elfriede Jelinek
#51. There are no distinctions at all any more, as far as entertainments are concerned, it's big and beautiful everywhere where we are. It would be a great help to us, if we could be everywhere at the same time. And here it is already, your entertainment!
Elfriede Jelinek
#52. My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
Elfriede Jelinek
#54. 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
#55. After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority.
Elfriede Jelinek
#56. 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.
Elfriede Jelinek
#57. It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
Elfriede Jelinek
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