Frederic Raphael Quotes

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• Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.
• Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
• 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.
• The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
• 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.
• The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide.…
• Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.
• Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make…
• One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of…
• Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup…
• People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
• The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that…
• As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
• The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

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