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“Technology [is] the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”

Max Frisch book Homo Faber

Source: Homo Faber (1957)

“How much frankness can we stand in a friend?”

Sketchbook 1966-1977

“A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment… But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.”

“It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.”

“Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others.”

Max Frisch book Montauk

Montauk (1975)

“A society needs famous people; the question is whom it chooses for that role. Any criticism of its choice is by implication a criticism of that society.”

Max Frisch book Montauk

Montauk (1975)

“Time does not change us it just unfolds us”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“We asked for workers. We got people instead.”

“When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.”

“You can put anything into words, except your own life”

“My reality doesn't lie in the part I play, but in the unconscious decision as to what kind of part I assign to myself.”

I'm not Stiller (1955)

“If on some occasion I happen to read something in it — because, for instance, I neet to know a date — I am always disconcerted to find that two or five years ago I came to exactly the same conclusion, only to forget it because I had not succeded in living up to it; in fact, I had tenaciously been doing the very opposite.”

Max Frisch book Montauk

Montauk (1975)

“Your virtuous living is your enemy's best and cheapest weapon”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“It is the secret that a man and a woman keep from each other that makes them a couple”

Max Frisch book Gantenbein

Gantenbein (1964)

“You hold the pen like a needle in a seismic observatory, and in fact it is not we who write, but rather we are written. Writing means to read oneself”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“We were calling for manpower and people came.”

Man hat Arbeitskräfte gerufen, und es kamen Menschen.
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“Half a lifetime is spent with the unspoken question: Will it happen will it not?”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“Plots- it seems there are thousands of them, all one's acquaintances known some, strangers make a present of them in letters, each the basis for a play or a novel…”

Sketchbook 1946-1949

“The selfknowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.”

Max Frisch book Montauk

Montauk (1975)

“The renunciation of recognition will never become possible without a certitude that our life is directed by a suprahuman authority.”

I'm not Stiller (1955)