Gunter Grass Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for a story, there is a certain - not falsification, but a shifting.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Trying, Together

• Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Unseen, Today

• Today I know that all things are watching, that nothing goes unseen, that even wallpaper has a better memory than human beings. It's not God in his heaven who sees everything. A kitchen chair, a clothes hanger, a half-filled ashtray, or the wooden replica of a woman named Niobe can serve perfectly well as an unforgetting witness to our every deed.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Clothes, Heaven

• What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Sunset, Glasses

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