For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better. - Elfriede Jelinek

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For the first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better.

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About Elfriede Jelinek

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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Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic.

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