"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."

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

Elfriede Jelinek

#Awards Quotes #Expression Quotes #Faces Quotes

“People are very nice to me, even though I'm known for saying rude things.”
“I was one of the first to read the 'ER' script and the good news is George Clooney still gives me credit for helping to launch his career. I had George Clooney under contract for four years in a row before 'ER' happened. He's one of the few who remembers the people who helped him.”

Source : "The man who made George Clooney" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2006.
“Remember to do the things you enjoy away from swimming, regularly.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for us, however briefly, our deep meanings.”

Source : Mary Caroline Richards (2011). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.63, Wesleyan University Press
“You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward.”
“They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits, whose clear destiny is to coalesce at some point in space and time.”
“When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out.”
“I'd just like to say that I have a personal disgust for small dogs, like poodles. I have some serious physical problems with them. Everything about them means I must kill them. I must.”

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