"The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate."

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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.

— Gunter Grass