Gunter Grass Quotes

I can only write a book like 'The Tin Drum' or 'From the Diary of a Snail' at a special period of my life. The books came about because of how I felt and thought at the time.

Gunter Grass

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: german
  • Birth: October 16, 1927 - April 13, 2015

Topics

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Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

Jessica Mitford

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I grew up on Cape Cod. We didn't live right on the water, but I could walk to it and did every day.

Andrea Barrett

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I've often found myself looking fondly at the Valentine's cultures in other countries. South Korea, for instance - where women must give chocolate to men.

John Niven

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I wanted to start a menswear line of slim-fitting, luxury cashmere jumpers in a range of great colours.

Matthew Williamson

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For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.

Sloane Crosley

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Yeah, I was a child of American popular culture.

Robert Crumb

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When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time.

Tom Felton

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I had an injury in my leg, and everybody was talking about that. I decided to cut my hair and leave the small thing there. I come to training, and everybody saw me with bad hair. Everybody was talking about the hair and forgot about the injury. I could stay more calm and relaxed and focused on my training.

Ronaldo

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I get very upset when people start adding weird things to romesco.

Jose Andres

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St. Tropez has a face glow that is amazing - you can put it on without makeup, and your skin just glows.

Chrissy Teigen

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I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.

Bryan Burrough

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I think the past need not be the dead past. If we get it right, with new books, the past can be a beacon for the future.

Peter Mayer

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