Mercy Otis Warren
American writer
Max Rudolf Frischwas a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch’s works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment.
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About the Max Frisch
Max Rudolf Frischwas a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch’s works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. The use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war output. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the 1965 Jerusalem Prize, the 1973 Grand Schiller Prize, and the 1986 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
21 Quotes by Max Frisch
- 1.
I have no words for my reality.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 2.
If anyone has a conscience it’s generally a guilty one.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 3.
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 4.
I don’t believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 5.
You can put anything into words, except your own life.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 6.
There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that’s something no police in the world can spot.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 7.
There is no art without Eros.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 8.
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn’t understand the horse dealer’s language.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 9.
It’s precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 10.
Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 11.
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 12.
Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 13.
It is only the consciousness of a nonexistence which allows us to realize for moments that we are living.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 14.
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 15.
When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 16.
A man with convictions finds an answer for everything. Convictions are the best form of protection against the living truth.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 17.
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it’s a piece of humbug.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 18.
I live, like every real man, in my work.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 19.
Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 20.
My greatest fear: repetition.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)
- 21.
Jealousy is the fear of comparison.
Max FrischSwiss playwrighter and novelist (1911-1991)