The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and … - Gunter Grass

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English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower.

Gunter Grass

The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

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On sorrow floats laughter.

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People have always told tales. Long before humanity learned to write and gradually became literate, everybody told tales to everybody else and everybody listened to everybody else's tales. Before long it became clear that some of the still illiterate storytellers told more and better tales than others, that is, they could make more people believe their lies.

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