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So rode the squadrons out against the grey steel foe, adding another dash of red to the sunset glow. — Gunter Grass

Our lives are full of stress. Some meditate, some walk, some sing and dance. Nature offers us garlic, maitake and hibiscus to relieve stress — Gunter Pauli

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. — Gunter Grass

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. — Gunter Grass

In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death. — Gunter Grass

[To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images. — Gunter Grass

What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them? — Gunter Grass

Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early. — Gunter Grass

In basic research, the use of the electron microscope has revealed to us the complex universe of the cell, the basic unit of life. — Gunter Blobel

Why would that woman shoot me? We had dinner reservations later! — Gunter Vogler

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. — Gunter Grass

Art is beautiful but it is hard, like a religion without a purpose. — Gunter Brus

I am not faithful but I am attached. — Gunter Grass

You American intellectuals - you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted! — Gunter Grass

My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result. — Gunter Brus

Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery.
SHOW YOUR TONGUE — Gunter Grass

Color will play no part in the art of future. — Gunter Brus

And so Yorick did not become a good citizen, but a Hamlet, a fool. — Gunter Grass

Thus my task was destruction. — Gunter Grass

Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated. — Gunter Grass

Students who don't want to get anywhere are sure to get somewhere. — Gunter Grass

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. — Gunter Grass

Better start running, the Black Cook's coming! Ha! Ha! Ha! — Gunter Grass

They swore by concrete. They built for eternity. — Gunter Grass

If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross. — Gunter Grass

Suppose you're teaching math. You assume that parallel lines meet at infinity. You'll admit that adds up to something like transcendence. — Gunter Grass

You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be. — Gunter Grass

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. — Gunter Grass

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray. — Gunter Grass

There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon. — Gunter Grass

As long as we do not know how the cell works, we don't know the kind of havoc the AIDS virus creates in the cell. — Gunter Blobel

There is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness. — Gunter Grass

Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd. — Gunter Grass

We are selling ourselves very short by funneling our energies into what the traditional perception is of academic and monetary success. — Gunter Pauli

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. — Gunter Grass

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. — Gunter Grass

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night
Perhaps the driver is singing
and happy because he sings. — Gunter Grass

Homeland is something one becomes aware of only through its loss. — Gunter Grass

[America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost. — Gunter Grass

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning. — Gunter Grass

Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin. — Gunter Grass

Be uncomfortable; be sand, not oil, to the machinery of the world. — Gunter Eich

Even the most fanciful story contains nuggets of truth. As readers, our job is to mine them. — Michael Gunter

The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists. — Gunter Grass

That's why I write; to bear the world as it crumbles. — Gunter Kunert

You become an artist to upset your family. — Gunter Brus

I've always been surrounded by children - never bothered by their noise. — Gunter Grass

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. — Gunter Grass

Art is gushing hot bile on the fields and harvesting the looks of nasty dwarfs. — Gunter Brus

Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow — Gunter Pauli

I expected more from literature than from real, naked life. — Gunter Grass

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed? — Gunter Grass

On sorrow floats laughter. — Gunter Grass

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 — Gunter Grass

Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes. — Gunter Grass

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid. — Gunter Grass

There is no unemployment in eco-systems — Gunter Pauli

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself. — Gunter Grass

The pencil-stroke is like cutting into the heart. — Gunter Brus

My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls. — Gunter Brus

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. — Gunter Grass

Stuffed cats are able to creep more convincingly than live ones. — Gunter Grass

Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental; — Gunter Grass

Art is hard for a puritan to understand. — Gunter Grass

Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it — Gunter Pauli

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. — Gunter Grass

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. — Gunter Grass

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth. — Gunter Brus

I hope Gunter Grass will continue helping the SPD in campaigns and that he will otherwise remain with us as a provocative literary figure, as well. — Sigmar Gabriel

My pride in Joachim Mahlke was as sweet as chocolate creams. — Gunter Grass

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped. — Gunter Grass

In the United States, the wealthy have a tradition of charity. But in Germany, the rich say, 'We pay taxes. It's enough.' — Gunter Blobel

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. — Gunter Grass

Self-worth: the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect. — Heather Gunter

People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances. — Gunter Pauli

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? — Gunter Grass

Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. — Gunter Grass

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. — Gunter Grass

I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains. — Gunter Grass

If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers. — Nina Gunter

The structure of many cellular macromolecules has been revealed at the atomic level using x-ray crystallography. — Gunter Blobel

Even bad books are books and therefore sacred. — Gunter Grass

Writing without making mistakes is like vomiting hot air. — Gunter Brus

An entire gullible nation believed faithfully in Santa Claus. But Santa Claus was really the Gasman. — Gunter Grass

my incessantly syllable-excreting mind — Gunter Grass

No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots. — Gunter Grass

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. — Gunter Grass