Gunter Grass Quotes
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
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.
- Gunter Grass
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
We are creating the future.
- Gunter Grass
The trend is towards the bourgeois-smug.
- Gunter Grass
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
- 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
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
Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
- Gunter Grass
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