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• 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.

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  People, Choices, Criticism

  Max Frisch (1975). “Montauk”, Suhrkamp Publishers

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• Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

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  Technology, Men, Way

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• Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

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  House, Income, Citizens

  Max Frisch (1962). “Three plays: The fire raisers, Count Oederland [and] Andorra”

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• If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

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  Guilty, Ifs, Conscience

  Max Frisch (1992). “Three Plays”

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

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  True Life, Meaning Of Life, Sound

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is always the moralists who do the most harm. Abortion is the logical outcome of civilization, only the jungle gives birth and moulders away as nature decrees. Man plans.

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  Men, Civilization, Giving

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps there are only a few women who experience without deception the overwhelming intoxication of the senses which they expectfrom their encounters with men, which they feel bound to expect because of the fuss made about it in novels, written by men.

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  Men, Deception, Encounters

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.85, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.

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  Love, God, Taken

  Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates

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• Why do dying people never shed tears?

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  Death, People, Tears

  Max Frisch (1989). “Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays”, Burns & Oates

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• Why don't we follow our yearning?

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  Yearning

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• If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line.

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  Writing, Lines, Firsts

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• 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?

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  Laughter, Mean, Laughing

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• I live, like every real man, in my work.

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  Real, Real Men, Men

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no such thing, as far as I'm concerned, as ownership in love.

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  Ownership, Concerned

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

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  Guilt, Use, Lives Of Others

  Max Frisch (1975). “Montauk”, Suhrkamp Publishers

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• Cause and effect are never divided between two people.

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  Two, People, Causes

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every uniform corrupts one's character.

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  Character, Membership, Uniforms

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• 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.

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  Soul, Police, World

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

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  Horse, Differences, Language

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• THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. Even what they eat and drink, these palefaces who don't know what wine istheir uglinesstheir pink sausage skin, horrible, they only live because there is penicillin,... the world as an Americanized vacuumtheir fake health, their fake youthfulnessthe way they use cosmetics even on corpses, their whole pornographic attitude to death.

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  Death, Attitude, Wine

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• Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

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  Accepting, Harder, Oneself

  Max Frisch (1958). “I'm not Stiller”, Vintage

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• Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

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  Fate, Men, Finals

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• There is no art without Eros.

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  Art, Eros

  Max Frisch (1977). “Sketchbook 1946-1949”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

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  Technology, Race, White

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• It is conceivable at least that a late generation, such as we presumably are, has particular need of the sketch, in order not to be strangled to death by inherited conceptions which preclude new births.... The sketch has direction, but no ending; the sketch as reflection of a view of life that is no longer conclusive, or is not yet conclusive.

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  Reflection, Views, Order

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