“Cemeteries have always had a lure for me. They are well kept, free from ambiguity, logical, virile, and alive. In cemeteries you can summon up courage and arrive at decisions, in cemeteries life takes on distinct contours -- I am not referring to the borders of the graves -- and if you will, a meaning.” IfsWellsDecisionAliveGravesBordersLogicalAmbiguityCemeteryReferringLure Author:Gunter Grass
“Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.” IfsExplanationAuschwitz Author:Gunter Grass
“If I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us.” IfsThinkingShouldNamesDoorsTemptation Author:Gunter Grass
“If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.” IfsJesusCrosses Author:Gunter Grass
“If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.” IfsAgeConsciousnessPrinciplesConflictAbsolutesBusyDawnMelancholyLeisureUtopiaModernismUtopian Author:Gunter Grass
“There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.” IfsMenReasonReason WhyBreastsFeedingBreastfeeding Author:Gunter Grass
“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.” IfsFeelsShouldSometimesFacesGrowsGrewMetsDecidedSkinsCampaignsGermanyThickShould IWoundedThick Skin Author:Gunter Grass
