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Swiss playwrighter and novelist (1911–1991)

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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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Not to know one another to a degree that went beyond all possibility of knowing one another was beautiful.

Uniforms ruin every character

You merely had an affair with me, to be exact, and therefore no right to prevent me from another affair.'

THANATOS AND EROS
the American for that is:
CASUAL SEX.

Wer sich nicht mit Politik befaßt, hat die politische Parteinahme, die er sich sparen möchte, bereits vollzogen: er dient der herrschenden Partei.

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

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

How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses.

What we call unfaithfuless: our attempt for once to get out from behind our own face, our desperate hope of eluding the definitive.

Basically America (the USA) is not a warmongering but simply a commercial society: war as the continuation of business by other means.

Time does not change us it just unfolds us

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

There are moments when her voice is all he needs.

Why there are so many great actresses, so few great woman writers? The erotic urge that lies at the bottom of all art has a feminine and a masculine character. Feminine is the urge to be; masculine the urge to do. Interpretative art always has more of the feminine about it

A person who does not concern himself with politics has already made the political choice he was so anxious to spare himself: he is serving the ruling party.