Is writing the gift of curling up, of curling up with reality? One would so love to curl up, of course, but what happens to me then? What happens to those, who don’t really know reality at all? It’s so very dishevelled. No comb, that could smooth it down. The writers run through it and despairingly gather together their hair into a style, which promptly haunts them at night. Something’s wrong with the way one looks. The beautifully piled up hair can be chased out of its home of dreams again, but can anyway no longer be tamed. Or hangs limp once more, a veil before a face, no sooner than it could finally be subdued. Or stands involuntarily on end in horror at what is constantly happening. It simply won’t be tidied up. It doesn’t want to.
Elfriede JelinekAfter all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.
Elfriede JelinekMoney never goes out of fashion.
Elfriede JelinekThe first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.
Elfriede JelinekTags: ownership
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
Elfriede JelinekTags: art
The mob not only grabs hold of art without being entitled to do so, but it also enters the artist. It takes up residence inside the artist and smashes a few holes in the wall, windows to the outer world: The mob wants to be seen.
Elfriede JelinekNo art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
Elfriede JelinekHer body is one big refrigerator, where Art is well stored.
Elfriede Jelineksimple people. . . . listen to music with their hearts and enjoy it more than those who are spoiled, jaded, blase.
Elfriede JelinekOnly the TV sounds are real, they are the actual events. All the people around here experience the same things at the same time, except for some loner, who switches to the educational channel.
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