{"author":"Max Frisch","author_id":"Max+Frisch","total_quotes":16,"quotes":[{"text":"A joke is a good camouflage. Next best comes sentiment... But the best camouflage of all - in my opinion - is the plain and simple truth. Because nobody ever believes it.","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["deception","firebugs","truth"],"id":572,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"},{"text":"Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["science","technology"],"id":5662,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"},{"text":"If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first li.","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["confidence","creative-writing","criticism","self-confidence","self-critique","writing"],"id":53247,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"},{"text":"Jealousy is the fear of comparison.","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["jealousy","comparison "],"id":67954,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"},{"text":"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?","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["friend","laugh","you "],"id":85843,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"},{"text":"The ants Geiser recently observed under a dripping fir tree are not concerned with what anyone might know about them; nor were the dinosaurs, which died out before a human being set eyes on them. All the papers, whether on the wall or on the carpet, can go. Who cares about the Holocene? Nature needs no names. Geiser knows that. The rocks do not need his memory.","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["knowledge","memory","nature"],"id":155491,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"},{"text":"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["change","just","us "],"id":201075,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"},{"text":"The main thing is to stand up to the light, to joy (like our child) in the knowledge that I shall be extinguished in the light over gorse, asphalt, and sea, to stand up to time, or rather to eternity in the instant. To be eternal means to have existed.","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["death","eternity"],"id":212716,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"},{"text":"Oh, this yearning to be white, this yearning to have straight hair, this lifelong striving to be different from the way one is created this great difficulty in accepting oneself, I knew it and saw only my own longing from outside, saw the absurdity of our yearning to be different from what we are...","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["accepting-oneself","different","reality-vs-pretension"],"id":300225,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"},{"text":"You can put anything into words, except your own life.","author":"Max Frisch","tags":["irony","meaning"],"id":316707,"author_id":"Max+Frisch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}