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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ffec040 | I cautiously parked in front of the craft store, went inside and found the glue gun, which, back home, would cost $12.99. There in Arizona it was $1.29, which is to say, it was basically free, and at that price they should have just gone out to the freeway and hurled glue guns at passing cars. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| 0fb0e79 | It is not on the ruin of liberty that we may (in the future... - "pourra", Fr.) build justice. | African Spir | ||
| 06ce885 | It is up to us to be for each other, a blessing or a torment. | African Spir | ||
| abff742 | His lack of story seemed to be of the which-came-first-the-chicken-or-the-egg variety. For example, he thought that if he learned how to hang-glide, then maybe his life's story could begin there--an adventure! Perhaps there would be a mystical moment up in the sky! But wait--in order to have such adventures, Craig would have to be into hang-gliding to begin with. If he rushed out and chose an activity at random, would he now have a meaningf.. | Douglas Coupland | ||
| d341df0 | My work?" she said. "You can see for yourself, patching up fragments. That is supposed to have been a vase. From Crete. I stick the past together." | Max Frisch | ||
| 801a610 | There is only one thing in the world that is really valuable, it is to do good. | African Spir | ||
| 21816a8 | Kato vseki istinski m'zh az zhiveia s rabotata si. Neshcho poveche, niamam nuzhda ot nishcho drugo i smiatam za shchastie fakta, che zhiveia sam - po me mnenie tova e edinstvenata v'zmozhna forma na s'shchestvuvane za edin m'zh; za mene e istinsko naslazhdenie da se s'buzhdam sam, bez da e neobkhodimo vednaga da zapochvam razgovor. Koia zhena mozhe da razbere tova? Dori v'pros't kak s'm spal mi e dosaden, ponezhe v mislite si az s'm otish'l.. | Max Frisch | ||
| 5382716 | Stoia prav s chasha v r'ka, p'lna s dzhin, koito ne obicham, i piia; ne pomr'dvam ot miastoto si, za da ne chuvam st'pki v zhilishcheto si - svoite sobstveni st'pki. Vsichko tova s'vsem ne e tragichno, a prosto tiagostno - ne mozhesh sam da si pozhelaesh ,,leka noshch"." | Max Frisch | ||
| d8c6695 | Der Schriftsteller scheut sich vor Gefuhlen, die sich zur Veroffentlichung nicht eignen; er wartet dann auf seine Ironie; seine Wahrnehmungen unterwirft er der Frage, ob sie beschreibenswert waren, und er erlebt ungern, was er keinesfalls in Worte bringen kann. Diese Berufskrankheit des Schriftstellers macht manchen zum Trinker. | schreiben schriftsteller | Max Frisch | |
| ed3c9bd | Zu den glucklichsten Minuten, die ich kenne, gehort die Minute, [...] Menschen sind eine Anstrengung fur mich, auch Manner. Was die Stimmung betrifft, so mache ich mir nichts draus, wie gesagt. Manchmal wird man weich, aber man fangt sich wieder. Ermudungserscheinungen! Wie beim Stahl, Gefuhle, so habe ich festgestellt, sind Ermudungserscheinungen, nichts weiter, jedenfalls bei mir. Man macht schlapp! Dann hilft es auch nichts, Briefe zu sc.. | solitude | Max Frisch | |
| 39e49ab | Zu den glucklichsten Minuten, die ich kenne, gehort die Minute, wenn ich eine Gesellschaft verlassen habe, wenn ich in meinem Wagen sitze, die Ture zuschlage und das Schlusselchen stecke, Radio andrehe, meine Zigarette anzunde mit dem Gluher, dann schalte, Fuss auf Gas; Menschen sind eine Anstrengung fur mich, auch Manner. Was die Stimmung betrifft, so mache ich mir nichts draus, wie gesagt. Manchmal wird man weich, aber man fangt sich wied.. | solitude | Max Frisch | |
| 862d618 | ein guter Abend, mehr als Zeitvertreib. Wenn jeder auf ein paar Gedanken kommt, die er nicht schon gehabt und fruher ausgesprochen hat, dank der Gegenwart des andern. | Max Frisch | ||
| 214e605 | Solange Gott ein Mann ist, nicht ein Paar, kann das Leben einer Frau, nur so bleiben wie es heute ist, namlich erbarmlich, die Frau als Proletarier der Schopfung, wenn auch noch so elegant verkleidet. | frau gleichberechtigung gott religion | Max Frisch | |
| 0ce55e6 | Es stimmt nicht einmal, dass ich immer nur mich selbst beschrieben habe. Ich habe mich selbst nie beschrieben. Ich habe mich nur verraten. | Max Frisch | ||
| a12aa52 | I confessed I knew nothing about art--she based her view on a saying of her mother's that anyone can respond to a work of art except the cultured philistine. "That's very kind of your mother!" I said." -- | Max Frisch | ||
| f9133dc | What I heard was the usual story: marriage, a child (which I didn't quite catch, obviously, otherwise I shouldn't have asked again later on), then the war, a prison camp, return to Dusseldorf and so on; it shook me to think how time passes, how we grow older. | Max Frisch | ||
| 545309c | I waited, my hand around the stem, to clink glasses; I wasn't in the least interested in Herr Piper, a man who lived in East Germany out of conviction | Max Frisch | ||
| da0ab5b | I ordered another half-bottle of Orvieto Abbocato, and then we talked about all sorts of things, about artichokes, Catholicism, cassata, the Sleeping Erinys, travel, the poverty of our time, and the best way to the Via Appia | Max Frisch | ||
| b698d9f | Nenavistta mi k'm samiia men! (Ako mozheshe da se zapochne zhivot't otnachalo!) | Max Frisch | ||
| 531dd8a | Not being shaved gives me the feeling I'm some sort of plant and I keep involuntarily feeling my chin. | Max Frisch | ||
| 1cfae55 | At times he got on my nerves, like all artists who think themselves loftier or more profound beings simply because they don't know what electricity is. | Max Frisch | ||
| cdeda31 | A race like these Mayas, who hadn't discovered the wheel and built pyramids and temples in the jungle, where everything becomes smothered in moss and crumbles with damp--what for? | Max Frisch | ||
| 59c4a2b | I believe Ivy wanted me to hate myself and seduced me merely to make me hate myself, and that was her joy, to humiliate me, the only joy I could give her. | Max Frisch | ||
| f5f24a2 | Because the Nazis considered theoretical physics and quantum mechanics too abstruse and "Jewish," they had replaced them years before with a more homegrown and homespun curriculum--the rudimentary Deutsche Physik--and as a result of the switch, half of the country's nuclear scientists had been relieved of, or driven from, their posts. A plethora of the continent's brightest lights had also taken flight. Not just Einstein, but Hans Bethe, Ma.. | Robert Masello | ||
| ad3e87e | War against puerperal fever. Caesarean operations. Incubators for premature births. We take life more seriously than in earlier times. | Max Frisch | ||
| aa9e3ee | Hanna had no use for statistics, I soon realized that. She let me deliver a whole lecture--in the bathroom--about statistics, and at the end all she said was: "Your bath is getting cold." | Max Frisch | ||
| 1ed4b4c | What's the difference between contraception and abortion? Both are expressions of the human will not to have children. | Max Frisch | ||
| 8c27028 | There is no physical injury, unless the abortion is carried out by a quack; if there is any psychological injury it is only because the person in question is dominated by moral or religious ideas. | Max Frisch | ||
| 1adf334 | To be consistent, those who argue that abortion is "unnatural" would have to say: no penicillin, no lightning rods, no eyeglasses, no DDT, no radar and so on." | Max Frisch | ||
| 84f21a1 | Caresses in the evening, yes, but I can't stand caresses in the morning, and frankly more than three or four days with one woman has always been for me the beginning of dissimulation, no man can stand feelings in the morning. I'd rather wash dishes! Sabeth laughed. | Max Frisch | ||
| e78bbf8 | I really began to feel that the young were beyond me. I often appeared to myself a deceiver. Why? I didn't want to undermine her belief that Tivoli surpassed anything I had ever seen anywhere and that an afternoon in Tivoli, for example, was happiness squared; but I just couldn't feel that way about it. | Max Frisch | ||
| e0953de | a woman with time on her hands in the morning, a woman who wanders about before she is dressed, for example, rearranging flowers in a vase and talking about love and marriage, is something no man can stand, I believe, unless he dissembles. | Max Frisch | ||
| 5771293 | on the one hand she had boundless trust in me, merely because I was thirty years older, a childish trust, and on the other hand no respect at all. I was vexed to find I expected respect. | Max Frisch | ||
| 151a36b | How many of the people I meet are interested in whether I'm enjoying myself, in my feelings at all? | Max Frisch | ||
| da31f16 | She was seriously disappointed, a child I was treating like a woman, or a woman I was treating like a child, I didn't know myself which it was. | Max Frisch | ||
| fef889c | They were obviously Americans, I could hear their voices as the party wandered around our tomb; to judge by the voices, they might have been stenographers from Cleveland. "Oh, isn't it lovely?" "Oh, is this the Campagna?" "Oh, how lovely it is here!" | Max Frisch | ||
| 66c8ea1 | The ladies' mauve-dyed hair interspersed with the bald patches of the gentlemen, who had taken off their panama hats--they must have broken out of an old-age home, I thought, but I didn't say it. | Max Frisch | ||
| d7465fc | Ivy was a model, she chose her clothes to match the color of the car, I think, and the color of the car to match her lipstick or the other way around, I'm not sure which it was. | Max Frisch | ||
| 4e90e79 | the Indians were far too gentle, too peaceable, positively childlike. They squatted for whole evenings in their white straw hats on the earth, motionless as toadstools, content without light, silent. The sun and moon were enough light for them, an effeminate race, eerie but innocuous. | Max Frisch | ||
| dbd549d | My life was in her hands . | Max Frisch | ||
| 357e9b2 | How many children are really wanted? The fact that the woman would rather have it once it's there is a different matter, an automatic reaction of the instincts, she forgets she tried to avoid it and added to this is the feeling of power over the man, motherhood as an economic weapon in the hands of the woman. | Max Frisch | ||
| f506b28 | Children are something we want or don't want. | Max Frisch | ||
| 3a09bc9 | I have been serving up stories to some sort of public, and in these stories I have, I know, laid myself bare - to the point of non-recognition. I live, not with my own story, but just with those parts of it that I have been able to put to literary use. Whole areas are missing: my father, my brother, my sister. Last year my sister died. I was disturbed to realize that I knew so much about her and yet had written none of it. It is not even tr.. | Max Frisch | ||
| bf84f28 | Jeder Mensch erfindet sich fruher oder spater eine Geschichte, die er fur sein Leben halt", [...] "oder eine ganze Reihe von Geschichten" [...]." | geschichten-erzählen max-frisch mein-name-sei-gantenbein schweizer-literatur | Max Frisch |