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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

#always #any #assigned #autobiography #aversion

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

#allows #also #chance #changes #constantly

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

#back #childhood #during #even #fairy

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#any #campaigns #decided #face #feel

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#before #capable #come #decades #drawer

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#future #growth #overpopulation #percentages #place

Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#compromises #full #life #uncompromising

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. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#cause #ceased #class #earner #exception

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes. ↗

— Charles Grassley

#another way #couple #i #lose #move

Selling drug secrets violates a trust that is fundamental to the integrity of both scientific research and our financial markets. ↗

— Charles Grassley

#financial #financial markets #fundamental #integrity #markets