How easily the routine of sin establishes itself. Gunter Grass More Quotes by Gunter Grass More Quotes From Gunter Grass The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous. Gunter Grass mind writing thinking If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. Gunter Grass principles dawn age As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. Gunter Grass mother liars children You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be. Gunter Grass wicked vain genius Art is hard for a puritan to understand. Gunter Grass puritan art-is art Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin. Gunter Grass melancholy coins tails Everything bigger than life attracts a crowd. Gunter Grass bigger-than-life crowds bigger Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that. Gunter Grass different hurt lying Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises. Gunter Grass compromise life-is art [To be an artist,] this desire to conquer all with images. Gunter Grass conquer artist desire Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. Gunter Grass puritan irrational art Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. Gunter Grass unseen today memories People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation? Gunter Grass children years thinking I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music. Gunter Grass reading morning believe [America is] the land where people find whatever they have lost. Gunter Grass land america people The patience of poverty. In rice fields, backs bent forever. Amazing, man outoxens the oxen and still smiles. The mystery of India, say Indologists. Gunter Grass oxen forever men I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray. Gunter Grass socialism generations grew-up I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense. Gunter Grass nonsense seductive found Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows. Gunter Grass trying men moving One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid. Gunter Grass brave fear mistake
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