"Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be.……" — Gunter Grass
"Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting."
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Gunter Grass
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