"The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open."

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Gunter Grass

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“It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is Bibline and the very essence of the Bible flows from you.”
“Iâ€™m not trying to hurt you; Iâ€™m trying to make you better.”
“Even when I became the typical shy adolescent, I never minded performing. I felt there was a kind of safety, a protection about being on stage, about losing myself in another character.”
“Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.”
“Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan tree', the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so conditioned your mind that the word comes between you and actually seeing the tree? To come in contact with the tree you have to put your hand on it and the word will not help you to touch it.”
“However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.”
“What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.”
“My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.”

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