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Gunther 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.»
«The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.»
Author: Gunther Grass
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«Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.»
Author: Gunther Grass
«Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.»
«Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.»
Author: Gunther Grass
«Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.»
Author: Gunther Grass
«If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.»
Author: Gunther Grass
«Only the Social Democrats will truly defend the culture of the German people.»
Author: Gunther Grass