"Even bad books are books and therefore sacred."

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Source : "The Tin Drum" by Gunter Grass, translated by Ralph Manheim, Book 1, "Rasputin and the Alphabet", 1961.

Gunter Grass

#Book Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“When the Irish novelist John McGahern was a child, his sisters unlaced and removed one of his shoes while he was reading. He did not stir. They placed a straw hat on his head. No response. Only when they took away the wooden chair on which he was sitting did he, as he puts it, 'wake out of the book'.”
“There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.”
“A relationship is lovely if you're happy, comfortable in it and you really like the person. I can think of nothing better. But there's nothing worse than having a relationship in which you feel no interest.”
“Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.”

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“I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.”
“In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.”
“Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.”
“I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues.”

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