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Günter Grass
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“Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred.”
Günter Grass (1927–2015) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Tin Drum Book 1, "Rasputin and the Alphabet" (1959), as translated by Ralph Manheim (1961)
“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.”
Günter Grass (1927–2015) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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!”
Günter Grass (1927–2015) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rat (1986), p. 6
“Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.”
Günter Grass (1927–2015) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Boys' Crusade (2003) by Paul Fussell, pg xv