McNatty

“Gregor was a real drinker..he didn't drink because he was sad..(or) cheerful. He drank because he was a thorough man, who like to get to the bottom of things, of bottles as well as everything else.”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum

“You know the old joke: with communism the future is certain, it’s just the past that keeps changing?”
― Patrick McGuinness, The Last Hundred Days

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
― Alex Haley

“When Jan was called up to service a fourth time...my mother waited outside...the two of them were convinced that this time Jan would have to go, that they would surely send him off to cure his ailing chest in the air of France, famed for its iron and lead content.”
― Günter Grass, The Tin Drum