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

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

The self knowledge that gradually or abruptly alienates a person from his previous life.

Even silence becomes whether we want it or not a statement that is in fact astoundingly presumptuous

The older you get the simpler you want to make it.

They wanted what is possible only once: the now.

The monstruous paradox that people come closer to one another without words

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

The sort of misery that brings no moral reward, misery that is of no value to the mind and soul, that is the true misery, it is hopeless, bestial and nothing else.

One can be resolved to promote good, or one can be resolved to be a good person- Two separate things that are mutually exclusive

Time does not change us it just unfolds us

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

To a certain degree we are really the person others have seen in us

How can we ever judge a human being when he is and he will always be another person

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...