“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
“When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.” WellsRunningYoungWaterWhiteSkyFrontsFlowerWeedMilkSplitsYoung Women 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
“I catch myself judging myself as that 13-year-old boy, who, of course, rightfully points out that he is only a child. And my membership - well, I was drafted into the Waffen-SS and didn't exactly volunteer, which was just as idiotic. I wanted to be on the submarines and then ended up with the Waffen-SS.” YearsWellsChildrenWantedCoursesBoysJudgingVolunteerMembershipIdioticSubmarinesJudging Myself Author:Gunter Grass
