"As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things."
― Gunter Grass
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― Gunter Grass
More From Gunter Grass
- "I don’t believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it’s not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o’clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music."
- "My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm’s fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of ‘Tom Thumb’ during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see."
- "I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours."
More In Great
- "Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves."― William Ellery Channing
- "Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth – don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."― Aesop
- "You respect all of these people that you know in the business as actors. And they sort of turn around and say, we really like your work. It’s a nice acknowledgment."― Lucy Liu