"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."

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Source : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

Elfriede Jelinek

#Children Quotes #Hands Quotes #Parent Quotes

“I am myself a gentleman of the press, and have no other escutcheon.”
“I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course.”
“It's harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn't get you anywhere.. Only makes you weak.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 16, 2009
“No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality.”
“She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.”

Source : Song: She Blinded Me With Science, Album: The Golden Age of Wireless
“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
“Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence; forget it, forgive it, but keep him inexorably at a distance who offered it.”
“I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.”

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