Quote by Gunter Grass
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. – Gunter Grass

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I have often supported Israel, I have often visited the country and want the country to exist and at last find peace with its neighbours. – Gunter Grass

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Peace
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I dont believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning its not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten oclock I have a long breakfast with reading and music. – Gunter Grass

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Morning
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My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimms fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of Tom Thumb during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. – Gunter Grass

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relationship
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty. – George Eliot

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It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. – Honore de Balzac

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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. – Plato

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The most important thing is Gods blessing and if you believe in God and you believe in yourself, you have nothing to worry about. – Mohamed Al-Fayed

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Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesnt arrive. – Doug Coupland

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