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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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