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Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.


Günter Grass

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ROBERT HARRIS Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books.
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AMBROSE BIERCE When the young woman
leans over the sky,
about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,<...
GüNTER GRASS They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.
GüNTER GRASS ...there is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perha...
GüNTER GRASS Love

That’s it:
The cashless commerce.
The blanket always too short.
The...
GüNTER GRASS And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the wate...
GüNTER GRASS ...if I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', be...
GüNTER GRASS When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once ...
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GüNTER GRASS Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a bette...
GüNTER GRASS You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.
GüNTER GRASS Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
GüNTER GRASS … there is something very strange and childish in the way grown-ups feel about their clocks—in t...
GüNTER GRASS Hoy ya sé que todo nos espía, que nada pasa inadvertido y que aun el papal pintado de las paredes ...
GüNTER GRASS Because men
are killing the forests
the fairy tales are running away.
The spindle doe...
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More Günter Grass

When the young woman
leans over the sky,
about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,<...
GüNTER GRASS They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.
GüNTER GRASS ...there is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perha...
GüNTER GRASS Love

That’s it:
The cashless commerce.
The blanket always too short.
The...
GüNTER GRASS And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the wate...
GüNTER GRASS ...if I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', be...
GüNTER GRASS When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once ...
GüNTER GRASS After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleash...
GüNTER GRASS Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a bette...
GüNTER GRASS You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.
GüNTER GRASS Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
GüNTER GRASS … there is something very strange and childish in the way grown-ups feel about their clocks—in t...
GüNTER GRASS Hoy ya sé que todo nos espía, que nada pasa inadvertido y que aun el papal pintado de las paredes ...
GüNTER GRASS Because men
are killing the forests
the fairy tales are running away.
The spindle doe...
GüNTER GRASS We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, ...
GUNTER GRASS If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - ...
GUNTER GRASS The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and re...
GUNTHER GRASS Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this less...
GUNTHER GRASS Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and y...
GUNTHER GRASS We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, ...
GUNTHER GRASS I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... o...
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GUNTHER GRASS If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -...
GUNTHER GRASS Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privileg...
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GUNTER GRASS Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needle...
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GUNTER GRASS I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger...
GUNTER GRASS We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz...
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GUNTHER GRASS I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defe...
GUNTER GRASS I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he...
GUNTER GRASS Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out ...
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GUNTER GRASS Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privileg...
GUNTER GRASS Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but ...
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GUNTER GRASS I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, ...
GUNTER GRASS In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growt...
GUNTER GRASS The naked figure will not get ahead between the mirrors.
GUNTER GRASS Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
GUNTER GRASS The trend is towards the bourgeois-smug.
GUNTER GRASS We are creating the future.
GUNTER GRASS I don't want you to sketch this cripple, this freak of nature, I want you to slaughter him, crucify ...
GUNTER GRASS Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminate...
GUNTER GRASS The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
GUNTER GRASS The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever.Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still...
GUNTHER GRASS If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -...
GUNTER GRASS I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... o...
GUNTER GRASS If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - ...
GUNTHER GRASS Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and y...
GUNTER GRASS My sister and I did not have our own rooms, or even a place to ourselves. In the living room, beyond...
GUNTER GRASS Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances ...
GUNTER GRASS I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a spec...
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GUNTER GRASS What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the questi...
GUNTER GRASS Only the Social Democrats will truly defend the culture of the German people.
GUNTHER GRASS The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever.
Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and ...
GUNTHER GRASS