Frederic Raphael Quotes (9 Quotes)

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 off.

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 not the evidence that it has been properly cooked.

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

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.

Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time

As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic d.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.