Gunter Grass Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gunter Grass
Gunter Grass Famous Quotes & Sayings
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So rode the squadrons out against the grey steel foe, adding another dash of red to the sunset glow.
Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
When the young woman
leans over the sky,
about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,
her white front splits open
until her milk runs.
leans over the sky,
about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,
her white front splits open
until her milk runs.
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?
Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
An empty bus hurtles through the starry night
Perhaps the driver is singing
and happy because he sings.
Perhaps the driver is singing
and happy because he sings.
The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists.
I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
There is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness.
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
The European Union arose on an economic foundation, and it turns out that even this is not a solid base. Cultural identity has been neglected.
I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.
Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental;
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters
Once upon a time there was a musician who slew his four cats, stuffed them in a garbage can, left the building, and went to visit friends.
An entire gullible nation believed faithfully in Santa Claus. But Santa Claus was really the Gasman.
I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.
Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.
When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?