Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Gunter GrassWriters know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.
Gunter GrassThere must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.
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