"I have found that words that are loaded……" — Gunter Grass
"I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense."
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Gunter Grass
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60 Quotes by Gunter Grass
Gunter Grass has 60 quotes on this site.
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Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to…
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Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?
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I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that…
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Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this…
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Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
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After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all…
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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a…
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I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed…
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I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did…
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I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's…
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It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things…
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Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.
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