Doderer, Heimito von

Anecdotes - All anecdotes are lies Escaping life, to which one suddenly nailed the last little tail: as if in shock, the whole thing froze

Gossip - The sound: the flesh of speech Gossip: when it goes the way of all flesh

Grammar - Grammar is the art of the most perfect expression with the least conspicuousness

Lies - When you start with the lies, they get longer and longer legs and in the end they strut along quite neatly as truths that you believe yourself

Sometimes you have to walk away from someone to find them

Necessity - What must be, must be. And what doesn't have to be? Especially

Opera has always been elitist, all art is elitist if it wants to deviate from mediocrity

Writing - writing: hovering over the abyss, held only by the grammar

Socialism - Socialism is what is called an enormous effort for the benefit of mankind, which consumes itself so completely that in the end everyone actually has everything, namely the leftover nothing

Loyalty - Loyalty is the longer or shorter, sometimes almost wistful echo of love