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" 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. "
Elfriede Jelinek
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Literature
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" 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. On the other hand, the more I read, the more I felt this well-known fissure between me and the world. "
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" 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. "
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" It doesn't suit me as a person to be put on public display. "
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" My writings are limited to depicting analytically, but also polemically, the horrors of reality. Redemption is the speciality of other authors, male and female. "
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" I can really write what I want. I can take time; I can do nothing for a year. That is paradise. "
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