"The party of God and the party of……" — 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 coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters."
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Frederic Raphael
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14 Quotes by Frederic Raphael
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Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.
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Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
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Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to…
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are…
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Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't…
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Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.
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Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior…
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One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely…
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Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are…
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People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
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The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting…
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