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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

#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

I've always considered making it legal for Americans to import their prescription drugs a free-trade issue. Imports create competition and keep domestic industry more responsive to consumers. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

#competition #considered #consumers #create #domestic

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. ↗

— Gunther Grass

#dissolves #information #networks #nothing #remains