Günter Grass: Cytaty po angielsku

Günter Grass był pisarz niemiecki, noblista. Cytaty po angielsku.
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“I shall speak of … how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another … Of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next … Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis and progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.”

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"On Stasis and Progress"' in Diary of a Snail (1972)

“We of the long tails! We of the presentient whiskers! We of the perpetually growing teeth! We, the serried footnotes to man, his proliferating commentary. We, indestructible!”

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Günter Grass książka The Rat

The Rat (1986), p. 6

“Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.”

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As quoted in The Boys' Crusade (2003) by Paul Fussell, pg xv ISBN 0-679-64088-6

“Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred.”

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The Tin Drum Book 1, "Rasputin and the Alphabet" (1959), as translated by Ralph Manheim (1961)