Max Frisch Quotes (1911-1991)

Writer, Playwright, Novelist

About Max Frisch

Max Rudolf Frisch (15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, who is regarded as one of the most influential Swiss writers of the 20th century.

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β€œDo you know what you need?”
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β€œ...for no rational reason.”
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β€œThe horror of uncreative solitude.....”
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β€œUniforms ruin every character”
β€œAre you friend with yourself ?”
β€œI know that I'm the happiest of lovers...”
β€œWhat hope have you know given up ?”
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β€œYou can lose a woman when you have won her.”
β€œThere are moments when her voice is all he needs.”
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β€œTime does not change us it just unfolds us”
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β€œTo write is to read one's own self”
β€œ'Everything that is human looks like a special case'”
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β€œNothing is harder than to accept oneself.”
β€œHow much frankness can we stand in a friend?”
β€œLife is boring. I have experiences now only when I am writing.”
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β€œThey wanted what is possible only once: the now.”
β€œTHANATOS AND EROS
the American for that is:
CASUAL SEX.”
β€œThe older you get the simpler you want to make it.”
β€œCause and effect are never divided between two people”
β€œYour virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon”
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β€œCarrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...”
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β€œTheatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness”
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β€œOur guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.”
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β€œTo a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us”
β€œThe dead are difficult because theyΒ΄ve never known the people IΒ΄m involved with today”

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Max Frisch on Critique of technology 2 quotes

β€œTechnology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”
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Max Frisch on Effectiveness

β€œTheatrical effectiveness, I believe, lies in it's rarity its uniqueness”
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Max Frisch on Technology

β€œTechnology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”
Max Frisch

About Max Frisch

Max Rudolf Frisch (15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss architect, playwright and novelist, who is regarded as one of the most influential Swiss writers of the 20th century.