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I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children.
~ Gunter Grass
After
Allowed
Children
Defenders
Family
Germans
Had
He
His
Law
Longer
Martial
Member
Office
Official
Play
Polish
Post
Post Office
Postal
Postal Service
Provisions
Service
Shot
Suddenly
Uncle
Were
Who
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I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.
~ Gunter Grass
Apt
Create
Euphoria
Found
Loaded
Nonsense
Pathos
Promote
Seductive
Words
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I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.
~ Gunter Grass
Abuse
Argument
Becomes
Citizens
Common
Country
Dead
Fill
Heard
How
Hurtful
I Think
Like
Me
Out
Part
Phrase
Point
Referred
Stop
Think
Usage
Used
Who
Words
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I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours.
~ Gunter Grass
Country
Exist
Find
Israel
Last
Neighbours
Often
Peace
Supported
Visited
Want
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I have seen and drawn dying, poisoned worlds. I published a book of drawings called 'Death of Wood' about one such world, on the border between the Federal Republic of Germany and what was then still the German Democratic Republic.
~ Gunter Grass
About
Between
Book
Border
Death
Democratic
Democratic Republic
Drawings
Drawn
Dying
Federal
German
Germany
Poisoned
Published
Republic
Seen
Still
Then
Wood
World
Worlds
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I remember when I was writing 'The Tin Drum,' I had the totally misguided idea of giving Oskar Matzerath a sister, and he just wouldn't have it. There was no space for a sister, yet I had the character of the sister in my head. In fact I used her in later novels, in 'Cat and Mouse' and 'Dog Years,' Tulla Pokriski.
~ Gunter Grass
Cat
Character
Dog
Drum
Fact
Giving
Had
He
Head
Her
I Remember
Idea
In Fact
Just
Later
Misguided
Mouse
Novels
Remember
Remember When
Sister
Space
Tin
Totally
Used
Writing
Years
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I think it's a shame that we have 'Bild' like you have the 'Sun'. Now serious newspapers like 'FAZ' and 'Spiegel' use a bit of the tone of 'Bild.' This is terrible.
~ Gunter Grass
Bit
I Think
Like
Newspapers
Now
Serious
Shame
Sun
Terrible
Think
Tone
Use
You
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I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.
~ Gunter Grass
About
Always
Any
Assigned
Autobiography
Aversion
Besides
Context
Crime
Day
Developed
Experiences
Felt
First
First Place
Having
Inner
Involved
Larger
Need
Never
Now
One Day
Only
Overcome
Place
Recently
Specifically
Write
Writing
Years
Younger
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I was brought up Catholic and know the stench of the Catholic Church. I moved away from religion early, but the impression remains.
~ Gunter Grass
Away
Brought
Catholic
Catholic Church
Church
Early
Impression
Know
Moved
Religion
Remains
Up
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I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.
~ Gunter Grass
Always
Astonished
Fantasy
Forest
Larger
Learn
Makes
Me
Much
My Own
Nature
Own
Realise
Still
Than
Things
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I've always been surrounded by children - never bothered by their noise.
~ Gunter Grass
Always
Been
Bothered
Children
Never
Noise
Surrounded
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If we take into account the existence of our planet, we have to recognise that we are guests that spend a short and very determined period in this world, and all we leave behind is nuclear waste.
~ Gunter Grass
Account
Behind
Determined
Existence
Guests
Leave
Nuclear
Our
Our Planet
Period
Planet
Recognise
Short
Spend
Take
Very
Waste
World
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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 to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
~ Gunter Grass
Absolute
Age
Busy
Busyness
Coincide
Come
Conflict
Consciousness
Dawn
Leisure
Melancholy
Perpetually
Principle
Soon
Then
Utopia
Utopian
Will
Without
Work
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In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.
~ Gunter Grass
Agree
Also
Chance
Changes
Constantly
Develop
Even
Feel
General
Growth
Itself
Language
Needs
New
Ought
Permit
Potentially
Renew
Though
Threatening
Uncontrolled
Words
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Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
~ Gunter Grass
Concealed
Information
Networks
Nothing
Remains
Sheer
Take
Unable
Volume
World
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It is a wonderful thing in the process of writing when such paper characters are first sketched, and, when one is doing good work, from a certain point in time they come alive and start contradicting the author as well.
~ Gunter Grass
Alive
Author
Certain
Certain Point
Characters
Come
Doing
Doing Good
First
Good
Good Work
Paper
Point
Process
Start
Thing
Time
Well
Wonderful
Wonderful Thing
Work
Writing
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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
Along
Another
Boring
Business
Different
Harm
Help
Hurt
Lies
Mostly
Oneself
Person
Protect
Truth
Truth Is
Very
Which
You
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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
~ Gunter Grass
Become
Cause
Class
Earner
Exception
Finds
Governed
Individual
Life
Mass
Melancholy
Mind
Phenomenon
Privilege
Production
State
Wage
Wherever
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Memory likes to play hide-and-seek, to crawl away. It tends to hold forth, to dress up, often needlessly. Memory contradicts itself; pedant that it is, it will have its way.
~ Gunter Grass
Away
Crawl
Dress
Dress-Up
Forth
Hold
Itself
Likes
Memory
Often
Play
Tends
Up
Way
Will
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My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see.
~ Gunter Grass
Advent
Back
Childhood
Even
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Far
Grew
Me
Mother
Production
Relationship
Saw
See
State
Tales
Theater
Thumb
Tom
Took
Up
Which
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