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I associate the metaphor of sport with war. The unrest in the former Yugoslavia, after all, started with a football match that then became charged in nationalist ways and ended in violence.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Tags: match, violence, football, war

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I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Tags: because, who, ego, women
My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Tags: training, words, me, music
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Tags: solidarity, more, construction, society
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.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Tags: society, face, time, me
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
— Elfriede Jelinek
Tags: which, up, language, long
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