Quotes by Grass, Gunther

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian pr >>

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages >>

I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How t >>

Quotations about Modern and Modernism

In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are th >>

I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books abo >>

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided >>

If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle -- absolute busyness -- then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy -- and without consciousness.

Grass, Gunther