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title: "1 Comes Age Quotes By Gunter Grass"
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> [Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/over-the-years-i-had-something-in-principle-against-autobiographical/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

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## More by Gunter Grass

> [Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/melancholy-has-ceased-to-be-an-individual-phenomenon-an-exception-it/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/melancholy-and-utopia-are-heads-and-tails-of-the-same-coin/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/if-work-and-leisure-are-soon-to-be-subordinated-to-this-one-utopian/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/i-have-often-supported-israel-i-have-often-visited-the-country-and/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/whenever-there-has-been-talk-of-exterminating-rats-others-who-were/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/you-can-begin-a-story-in-the-middle-and-create-confusion-by-striking/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/there-must-be-reasons-why-we-men-are-so-hipped-on-breasts-as-if-we-d/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/often-i-had-to-imagine-the-things-i-needed-i-learned-very-early-to/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [Art is hard for a puritan to understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/art-is-hard-for-a-puritan-to-understand/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/what-does-a-river-like-the-vistula-carry-away-with-it-everything-that/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/love-that-s-it-the-cashless-commerce-the-blanket-always-too-short-the/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [“They had tried doing it by themselves in her room with a cheap onion, but it wasn't the same. You needed an audience. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/they-had-tried-doing-it-by-themselves-in-her-room-with-a-cheap-onion/)

[Günter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [ \[To be an artist,\] this desire to conquer all with images. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/to-be-an-artist-this-desire-to-conquer-all-with-images/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

> [After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/after-the-collapse-of-socialism-capitalism-remained-without-a-rival/)

[Gunter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gunter-grass/suppose-you-re-teaching-math-you-assume-that-parallel-lines-meet-at/)

[Günter Grass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gunter-grass/)

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