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Max Rudolf Frisch (15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity, individuality, responsibility, morality, and political commitment. His use of irony is a significant feature of his post-war publications. Frisch was one of the founders of Gruppe Olten. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1986.

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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.

Love, God, Taken, Shalt, Grasped, Sin

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Fact, Fence, Freedom, Party, Political, Politics

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.

Men, Bridges, Voice, Calculating, Against

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!

Body, Death, Peoples, Technology, Tried

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

Except, Life, Words

We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes--or rather, we've seen it with our own eyes, but not on the spot: our knowledge comes to us from a distance, we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers.

Age, Distance, Eye, Live, Personal

The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope. . . it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

Fear, Feelings, Hope, Men, Operates, Robots

Travelling, gentlemen, is medieval, today we have means of communication, not to speak of tomorrow and the day after, means of communication that bring the world into our homes, to travel from one place to another is atavistic.

Communication, Home, Speak, Travel, World

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?

Laugh, Laughing, Laughter, Make, Mean

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

Conscience, Generally, Guilty, Ifs

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

Believe, Fate, Probability, Technologist, Used

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

Experience, Men, Technology, Universe, Way

My greatest fear: repetition.

Fear, Greatest, Greatest Fear, Repetition

Why do dying people never shed tears?

Death, Dying, People, Shed, Tears

I know that I'm the happiest of lovers.

Happiest, Know, Knows, Lovers

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

Criticize, Firsts, Line, Lines, Writing, Youll

If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill!

Downhill, Easy, Ifs, Maybe

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.

Deception, Encounters, Men, Novels

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.

Americanized, Attitude, Corpses, Death, Live, Wine

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Change, Doe, Honesty, Time, Unfolds

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