Guenter Grass Quotes & Sayings

But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. — Salman Rushdie

The torture squad was so well trained that they were performing almost perfect crimes, avoiding leaving any obvious evidence. Nothing was left to chance. They hit in predefined places. They practiced horrible methods, the aftermath of which would only manifest later. The interrogators turned the A/C all the way down — Mohamedou Ould Slahi

Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea ... — Anne Sexton

A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel. — Stephen Kinzer

In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly. — Edward'O

The past is the past. It's now up to us to sustain our own culture. We only lose what we fail to nurture. — James Rollins

The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, branches, leaves. Of course a tree would have taken a different view of the matter. We all tend to see the way others are alike and how we differ, and it's probably just as well we do, since that prevents a great deal of confusion. But perhaps we should remind ourselves from time to time that ours is a very partial view, and that the world is full of a great deal more variety than we ever manage to take in. — Thomas M. Disch

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well. — Jim Rohn

Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently. — Matt Damon

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things
childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves
that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers. — Salman Rushdie

It was sometimes inconvenient to have the gold-green, slit-pupilled eyes of a cat, but this was usually easily hidden with a small glamour, and if not, well, there were quite a few ladies-and men-who didn't find it a drawback. — Cassandra Clare

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. — Gretchen Rubin

I have a tendency to talk extremely fast ... I think the fastness comes from the fact that I get very excited about things and I just want to spit them out. — Shailene Woodley

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right! — Frank Herbert