Frederic Raphael Quotes
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.
Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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 nourishment.
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
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?
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.
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.
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 in which they are obliged to be served.
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.
