Frederic Raphael Quotes

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

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. - 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. - Frederic Raphael

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? - Frederic Raphael

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

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. - Frederic Raphael

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

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