The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
“Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.”
“You are vain and wicked- as a genius should be.”
“...I remain restless and dissatisfied; what I knot with my right hand, I undo with my left, what my left hand creates, my right fist shatters”
“If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.”
“When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?”
“...if I were asked to think up a new name for temptation, I should recommend the word 'doorknob', because what are these protuberances put on doors for if not to tempt us...”
“What did the onion juice do? It did what the world and the sorrows of the world could not do: it brought forth a round, human tear. It made them cry. At last they could cry again. To cry properly, without restraint, to cry like mad. The tears flowed and washed everything away. The rain came. The dew. Oskar has a vision of floodgates opening. Of dams bursting in the spring floods. What is the name of that river that overflows every spring and the government does nothing to stop it?”
“...there is also such a thing as ersatz happiness, perhaps happiness exists only as an ersatz, perhaps all happiness is an ersatz for happiness.”
“Thus my task was destruction.”
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literature, books, wickedness, quality, vanity, genius, sacredness
