"It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn."

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Source : "Günter Grass in quotes: 12 of the best", www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2015.

Gunter Grass

#Fantasy Quotes #Realising Quotes #Stills Quotes

“I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.”
“I think what we journalists too often do is we assume the status quo is unchangeable. I think all sorts of issues of political reform, electoral reform need more discussion than they get.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and plot. If I see a theme emerging in a story I will likely take it up and develop it. I hardly ever set out with a conscious plan and if I do the story usually takes over and takes me where it wants to go.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.”
“I stared at Jean-Claude and it wasn't the beauty of him that made me love him, it was just him. It was love made up of a thousand touches, a million conversations, a trillion shared looks. A love made up of danger shared, enemies conquered, a determination to neither of us would change the other, even if we could. I love Jean-Claude, all of him, because if I took away the Machiavellian plottings, the labyrinth of his mind, it would lessen him, make him someone else.”
“Dorothy said nothing. Oz had not kept the promise he made her, but he had done his best. So she forgave him. As he said, he was a good man, even if he was a bad Wizard.”
“What we should be doing as musicians is trying to bring people together.”

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