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Everyone wants to look for something of their own, a house of their own, a child of their own, a par...

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

I only enjoy what I can see, because I don't feel anything. For example, your new wallpaper. I like ...

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The moment workers can afford too little they rebel. The last time this was a real danger was 1950. ...

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Many young people are still driven to art, as in olden times. Most of them are driven by their paren...

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The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. I...

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Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.

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Money never goes out of fashion.

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No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an...

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The Ph.D is one of the chosen who know that some things can never be fathomed, no matter how hard yo...

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A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat o...

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She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as sh...

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

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

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Ah, lust! How one would like to make it the cornerstone of self! But I wouldn't go ahead and build o...

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I, however, have really never been anywhere yet, not because some sins or other could wrap themselve...

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Elfriede Jelinek

Playwright

Born: 1946-10-20

Died: N/A

Elfriede Jelinek (German pronunciation: [ɛlˈfʀiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born October 20, 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."More