Elfriede Jelinek: Man

Elfriede Jelinek is Austrian writer. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“I don’t know if it’s enough for a whole life, a man wants to enjoy many women, a man is different.”

Elfriede Jelinek

P 26
Women As Lovers (1994)

“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.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

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Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“The most powerful urge known to Man is the urge to be free of manual labour. Any means that accomplishes that end is fine. Some people erroneously imagine that they have a birthright to non-manual work.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

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Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“Every man would like to possess all the women in the world, but a woman only wants the man she loves and to whom she is faithful.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

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Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

“Work is not a constraint. Man's activity provides his true fulfilment. True fulfilment however, can only be achieved if one man is not another man's slave.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

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Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)

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

Elfriede Jelinek

p 3
Women As Lovers (1994)

“There is no such thing as the universal ‘Man’ never has been, never will be, there is the worker and there is the one who exploits the worker and those who abet him.”

Elfriede Jelinek book Wonderful, Wonderful Times

P 219
Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990)