Max Frisch Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Max Frisch

  Death, Attitude, Wine

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• Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

  Max Frisch

  Fate, Men, Finals

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• Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.

  Max Frisch

  Marriage, Hands, Defeat

  Max Frisch (1994). “I'm Not Stiller”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body--we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

  Max Frisch

  Death, Technology, Body

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

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  Believe, Destiny, Pieces

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

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• We live technologically, with man as the master of nature, man as the engineer, and let anyone who raises his voice against it stop using bridges not built by nature.... No electric light bulbs, no engines, no atomic energy, no calculating machines, no anaesthetics-back to the jungle.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Light, Bridges

  Max Frisch (2006). “Homo Faber”, p.131, Penguin UK

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• Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist's worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

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  Death, Mistake, Technology

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• I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

  Max Frisch

  Believe, Fate, Used

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• I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

  Max Frisch

  Technology, Men, Mastery

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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