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.
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. - Frederic Raphael
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
- Frederic Raphael
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time. - Frederic Raphael
Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.
I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete. - Frederic Raphael
I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.
During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost… - Frederic Raphael
During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost…
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
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. - Frederic Raphael
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. - Frederic Raphael
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
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… - 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…
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. - 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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