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> [As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/as-oscar-wilde-should-have-said-when-bad-ideas-have-nowhere-else-to/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

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## More by Frederic Raphael

> [Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/your-idea-of-fidelity-is-not-having-more-than-one-man-in-bed-at-the/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/the-television-critic-whatever-his-pretensions-does-not-labour-in-the/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/mass-communication-communicates-massively-its-language-lacks-precise/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/talk-isn-t-work-work-is-when-you-have-pages-in-the-evening-that-you/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/people-resent-articulacy-as-if-articulacy-were-a-form-of-vice/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/great-restaurants-are-of-course-nothing-but-mouth-brothels-there-is/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/as-oscar-wilde-should-have-said-when-bad-ideas-have-nowhere-else-to/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/truth-maybe-stranger-than-fiction-but-fiction-is-truer/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/during-the-years-when-the-barely-educated-immigrants-were-being/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/the-great-networks-are-there-to-prove-that-ideas-can-be-canned-like/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/at-last-after-innumerable-glamorous-and-frightful-years-mankind/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/vichy-proves-one-thing-if-you-don-t-want-to-know-how-low-your-fellow/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/the-party-of-god-and-the-party-of-literature-have-more-in-common-than/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/we-thought-philosophy-ought-to-be-patient-and-unravel-people-s-mental/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

> [I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-raphael/i-could-do-without-sex-don-t-really-like-it-that-much-if-i-could-just/)

[Frederic Raphael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-raphael/)

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