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Max Frisch Quotes

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: swiss
Birth: May 15, 1911 - April 4, 1991

Topics

Language Horse Understand Difference

In school, I really felt like I didn't fit a type. I think everybody had a hard time putting me in a category. They all sort of realized, 'Hmm, you don't really look like a soprano. You're not really a character belter.'

Character Time School Me Think Look

How we come to be, and how we are what we are, is beyond any understanding. I have been obsessed by this, trying to understand the very nature of my existence.

Nature Understanding Trying Beyond

I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It's not acceptable.

Work Children Generation Down Said

We wanted 'Hugo' to be a cornucopia of cinema, a celebration of everything we do in movies.

Cinema Movies Celebration Everything

I think a lot of people start out full of idealism and fresh ideas. And then a lot of times, being re-elected becomes more important than staying true to your principles.

People Ideas Start Think True More

The great thing about filming a film is that you all have your final day's shooting, but you always know that you're all going to be coming back for the premiere.

Great Day You Back Know Shooting

You have to be happy with yourself first of all - that's the most important thing.

Yourself Happy Be Happy You First

At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

Soledad O'Brien

Life God Bridge World Reading Think

My older brothers have their own children, and they have to go to soccer practice and football practice on the weekends. They're doing their thing and on the weekends, and I'm on the road. The busier we get, the less time we get to see each other. That's why, when we see each other, it's really, really kind of special.

Children Time Football Practice Road

The appellation of a Scottish Bard is by far my highest pride; to continue to deserve it is my most exalted ambition.

Ambition Pride Deserve Far Scottish

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

Writing Process Something Destructive

Right now, I feel like I can take on the world. Ambition is the perfect word for where I am in my life right now.

Life I Am Ambition World My Life

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