Memoir Quote by Gunter Grass Download Open image ““Ignore the misery. Custom invites you to ignore the misery." SHOW YOUR TONGUE”” — Gunter Grass ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memoir
“If you curse the world, it will bring you sorrow.' 'I'm already so unhappy it's laughable.” — Satoshi Mizukami Copy Share Image
“Misery loves company...never be afraid to stand out and stand up for happiness! Be a good example, not a good excuse for others to… — Karlicia Lewis Copy Share Image
Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Misery is like a gamy piece of meat: not particularly nourishing, certainly not tasty, but still it’s something to chew on, and that’s better… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Misery only added to the cumulative experience of the adventure that would ultimately sculpt me into a stronger, more resilient human being.” — Kyle Rohrig Copy Share Image
real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild. — Lady Caroline Lamb Copy Share Image
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“You can begin a story in the middle and create confusion by striking out boldly, backward and forward. You can be modern, put aside… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
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… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“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… — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature." — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“A bookshop is a peaceful sanctuary of silent voices waiting to heard” — Mala Naidoo Copy Share Image
I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old. Like I'd… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
“When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.” — Jo Treggiari Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“FROM a six-year-old: Told by a well-meaning friend, ‘Alex, do you know what the one thing is that the more you give, the more… — Susan Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I used to teach at an abused children's home. I told the kids, "You all have a manure pile of memories. Nothing you can… — Rebecca O'Donnell Copy Share Image
A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it. — Richard Hell Copy Share Image
By calling it a memoir, I meant is as a collection of memories. I thought it was (a more) artful (title) than documentary. — Natalie Merchant Copy Share Image
“One thing I always admired about Daddy was the way he could bounce back from adversity. From the very beginning of his life, he’d… — L.K. Campbell Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
