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Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises (Gunter Grass Quotes)
I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years (Gunter Grass Quotes)
With drawing, I am acutely aware of creating something on a sheet of paper. It is a sensual act, which you cannot say about the act of writing. In fact, I often turn to drawing to recover from the writing (Gunter Grass Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him (Gunter Grass Quotes)
After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game (Gunter Grass Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place (Gunter Grass Quotes)
What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I’ve decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn’t feel any more (Gunter Grass Quotes)
In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself (Gunter Grass Quotes)
Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way. (Gunter Grass Quotes)
I think it’s a shame that we have ‘Bild’ like you have the ‘Sun’. Now serious newspapers like ‘FAZ’ and ‘Spiegel’ use a bit of the tone of ‘Bild.’ This is terrible (Gunter Grass Quotes)
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it’s especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as ‘do-gooders.’ This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage (Gunter Grass Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm’s fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of ‘Tom Thumb’ during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see (Gunter Grass Quotes)
I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children (Gunter Grass Quotes)
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime? (Gunter Grass Quotes)
One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid. (Gunter Grass Quotes)
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that’s hard for a puritan to understand. (Gunter Grass Quotes)
An empty bus hurtles through the starry nightPerhaps the driver is singingand happy because he sings. (Gunter Grass Quotes)
What novel - or what else in the world - can have the epic scope of a photograph album? May our Father in Heaven, the untiring amateur who each Sunday snaps us from above, at an unfortunate angle that makes for hideous foreshortening, and pastes our pictures, properly exposed or not, in his album, guide me safely through this album of mine... (Gunter Grass Quotes)
I remember when I was writing ‘The Tin Drum,’ I had the totally misguided idea of giving Oskar Matzerath a sister, and he just wouldn’t have it. There was no space for a sister, yet I had the character of the sister in my head. In fact I used her in later novels, in ‘Cat and Mouse’ and ‘Dog Years,’ Tulla Pokriski. (Gunter Grass Quotes)
Our minds aren’t bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That’s also possible for a writer. (Gunter Grass Quotes)
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work (Gunter Grass Quotes)
It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well. (Gunter Grass Quotes)
I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called ‘Death of Wood’ about one such world, on the border between the Federal Republic of Germany and what was then still the German Democratic Republic. (Gunter Grass Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
On sorrow floats laughter (Gunter Grass Quotes)