Alternatives Quote by Gunter Grass

“Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.” quote by Gunter Grass — Download Open image

“Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.”

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Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come…

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Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

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“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside all mention of time and distance and, when the whole thing is done, proclaim, or let someone else proclaim, that you have finally, at the last moment, solved the space-time problem. Or you can declare at…

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There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.

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Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing…

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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 four shoes and in one’s mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns…

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[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

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