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Trust is fine, but control is better.
Vice is basically the love of failure.
Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.
The problem is that it is difficult to translate.
He lies like a book. And he reads a lot of books.
Art and order, the relatives that refuse to relate.
Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.
It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display.
The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.
I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist.
Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.
It's a wonderfully democratic method, publishing a text on the Internet.
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.
I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.
I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.
Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language
My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
I am a sort of justice fanatic, and I always have to give a voice to those who get a raw deal.
I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.
It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.
I find the Internet to be the most wonderful thing there is. It connects people. Everyone can have input.
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.
How can the writer know reality if it is that which gets into him and sweeps him away, forever onto the sidelines.
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
It's interesting that the treatment of historical events by art precedes the civilisation of people through democracy.
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
As much as football can cause war, it can also cause peace. Football is a kind of Geiger counter of civilisation, or a catalyst for good as well as bad.
My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Redemption is the speciality of other authors, male and female.
In Austria, a rather authoritarian Catholic country, the role of the social admonisher traditionally fell to artists because there were no great political thinkers.
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.
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing.
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.
Internet is exemplary for me. I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity,' so to speak. The fleetingness of the Internet has therefore become very attractive to me.
A woman who becomes famous through her work reduces her erotic value. A woman is permitted to chat or babble, but speaking in public with authority is still the greatest transgression.
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.
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.
you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we only have to be extraordinary and see what happens.
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!
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.
The smaller a group, the easier it is for more people to argue and enter into discussions. The U.S. is vast. It's too large. The intellectuals hide out in enclaves, in big cities or universities, like a bunch of chickens hiding from a fox.
Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.