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Max Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist, born on May 15, 1911, and died on April 4, 1991. Known for his unique narrative style and profound insights into modern society, Frisch is considered one of the most outstanding Swiss writers of the 20th century.

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“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.”

World Mean Home Today Speak Communication Tomorrow Travel Gentleman Medieval Means Of Communication

Book:Homo Faber

Source: Homo Faber

“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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Author:Max Frisch

“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.”

World Trying Death Mistake Technology Lays Resistance My Mistakes Eliminating Knack

Author:Max Frisch

“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.”

World Eye Age Distance Spots Reproduction

Book:I'm Not Stiller

Source: I'm Not Stiller

“Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”

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Book:Homo Faber

Source: Homo Faber

“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.”

World Way Persons Soul Murder Police Spots

Book:I'm Not Stiller

Source: I'm Not Stiller

About the Author

Born: May 15, 1911
Died: April 4, 1991
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 79

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