"People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a……" — Frederic Raphael
"People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice."
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14 Quotes by Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- 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…
- The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are…
- Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't…
- The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may…
- 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…
- One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely…
- Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are…
- The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting…
- As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become…
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