if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a f… - Elfriede Jelinek

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if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman.

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Elfriede Jelinek (German pronunciation: [ɛlˈfʀiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born October 20, 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."

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Native Name: Elfriede Jelineková

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Nothing is natural, yet everything is as it is by nature.

The rules of art do not exist, because what makes art art is the fact that it obeys no rules at all.

The world would be a lot better off if it paid more attention to its philosophers and artists than to its own tiny egotistic spirit, which lacks an overview. People should place their belief in Beethoven and Socrates.

if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman. - Elfriede Jelinek

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