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The storm caused by our god, sex, sends us all to our ruin by the shortest route.
When she's having sex, no woman remains grandiose.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK, The Piano Teacher
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!
This dog, language, which is supposed to protect me, that’s why I have him, after all, is now snapping at my heels. My protector wants to bite me. My only protector against being described, language, which, conversely, exists to describe something else, that I am not -- that is why I cover so much paper -- my only protector is turning against me.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 7, 2004
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK, The Piano Teacher
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, Women As Lovers
Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK, Greed
Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.
ELFRIEDE JELINEK, Wonderful, Wonderful Times
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