"Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want……" — 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."
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Frederic Raphael
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14 Quotes by Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael has 14 quotes on this site.
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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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The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may…
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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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As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become…
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