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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

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

Dignity: the doomed man's final refuge.

Max Frisch
Fate, Men, Finals

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

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.

Max Frisch
Reflection, Views, Order

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

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

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

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

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.

Max Frisch
Death, Mistake, Technology

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

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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