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Gunther Grass
German
Author
About the author
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
Gunther Grass,
German
Author
#Life
#Art
Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.
Gunther Grass,
German
Author
#Lies
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.
Gunther Grass,
German
Author
#Work
#Will
#Age
#Consciousness
#Leisure
#Dawn
#Utopia
#Melancholy
#Conflict
#Busyness
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
Gunther Grass,
German
Author
#Nothing
#World
#Information
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Gunther Grass,
German
Author
#Life
#State
#Cause
#Mind
#Production
#Class
#Privilege
#Melancholy
#Wage
We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
Gunther Grass,
German
Author
#Growth
#Future
#Statistics
#Pollution