"Vice is basically the love of failure."

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Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.118, Profile Books

Elfriede Jelinek

“You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.”

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“I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.”

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“I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.”
“Honestly, I'm really just a teddy bear.”
“I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.”
“Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom.”

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“We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.”
“I always did drawings. Then, few years ago, I started working with large-scale paper. It's an extension of performance, because the pieces are the size of my full body. I use pencils, acrylic, watercolors, and I also incorporate textual messages. I did most of them in a monastery in Spain at the top of a mountain. I lived there a bit like a monk. I meditate quite often. At night, which is when I like to work, I like to think I have conversations with Francisco Goya. He died so many years ago, of course, but somehow, his ghost is always with me.”

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