“Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.” KnowsHumansTodayMemoriesHuman BeingsAll ThingsUnseen Author:Gunter Grass
“Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.” KnowsTryingSometimesStoriesTogetherRememberCertainMemoriesKnow HowBe YouFragmentsShiftingFalsification Author:Gunter Grass
“I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.” KnowsYearsGroupsCriminalsElitesUnitsVolunteer Author:Gunter Grass
“Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God in his heaven who sees everything. A kitchen chair, a clothes hanger, a half-filled ashtray, or the wooden replica of a woman named Niobe can serve perfectly well as an unforgetting witness to our every deed.” KnowsHumansWellsTodayHeavenMemoriesHuman BeingsHalfClothesAll ThingsFilledDeedsWitnessKitchenChairsUnseenHangersReplicaAshtrays Author:Gunter Grass
“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.” KnowsWritingSometimesCapableDecadesDrawers Author:Gunter Grass
