"I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit."

-- Gunter Grass

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“Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give something of yourself again and you receive something again. Life goes bad when people try to take from it without giving. Then they came away empty-handed, and they grab harder and more often, growing more disappointed and disillusioned each time.”
“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”

Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.
“To me an anthology gives meaning to the phrase, "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Even if those individual parts are really f-ing hot.”
“If someone opens a glorious Scotch or a bottle of wine, it's no more than a whimsy, but after nearly 40 years I'm used to it. I don't find it difficult not being drunk when other people are, but I get uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable with where I am.”
“I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.”
“Good -humor is goodness and wisdom combined.”
“Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?”
“She refers to her past as the time before she was "blown away.”

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