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Frederic Raphael is a renowned screenwriter, born on August 14, 1931. His works span across various mediums including film, television, and theater, known for his unique narrative style and profound character development.

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Famous Frederic Raphael Quotes

“Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

Wisdom Truth Fiction

Author:Frederic Raphael

“I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.”

Alienation Outsider Jewishness Diaspora Minority

Author:Frederic Raphael

“By a pretty, untranslatable pun, Traum (the German for a dream) and trauma were almost indistinguishable in the Vienna which was at home to both.”

History Dreams Defeat Trauma Ptsd Traum

Book:Dream Story

Source: Dream Story

“At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.”

Years War Ends Lasts Mankind Approach Predictable Glamorous

Author:Frederic Raphael

“I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.”

Ifs Feels Sex If I Could Fidelity

Author:Frederic Raphael

“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.”

People Philosophy Fall Trouble Ought Patient Block Be Patient

Author:Frederic Raphael

“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 démarche.”

World Years Mean Son Cost Hollywood Nuclear Educated Native Immigrants Replaced Domination Arsenal Diplomatic World Domination Native Son

Author:Frederic Raphael

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

Men Ideas Moral Bed Manners Sarcastic One Man Fidelity

Author:Frederic Raphael

“Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.”

Writing Fiction Stranger Stranger Than Fiction

Author: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.”

Ifs Courses Food Mouths Restaurants Belts No Point Brothels Great Restaurants

Author:Frederic Raphael

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

Doe Television Critics Labour Criticize Grapes Sour Pretension Vineyards

Author: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.”

Ifs Knows Want War Fall Loses History Know How One Thing Citizens Prove Lows Fellows

Author: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.”

May Literature Party Common Conflict Bigotry Sole Coincidence Interpreter Custodians True Words

Author:Frederic Raphael

“Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.”

Morning Pages Crafts Evening

Author:Frederic Raphael

“Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.”

Kind Language Term Communication Behavior Mass Ethics Program Communicate Arguing Precise Articulation Showbiz Mass Communication

Author:Frederic Raphael

“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.”

Left Interest Hours Watches Television Tvs Losing Chinese Nourishment Chinese Food Losing Interest

Author:Frederic Raphael

“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.”

Effects Television Opposites Radio Visuals Isolated Soup Obliged Velvet

Author:Frederic Raphael

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

People Ifs Form Conversation Vices Resent

Author: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?”

Ifs Has Beens Ideas Ends Television Prove Evidence Tasting Spaghetti

Author:Frederic Raphael

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

Should Said Ideas America Courses Should Have University Oscars Bad Ideas Wilde

Author:Frederic Raphael

About the Author

Born: August 14, 1931
Known for: Screenwriter
Quotes: 20

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