Frederic Raphael
Frederic Raphael
Frederic Michael Raphaelis an American-born, British-educated, screenwriter, biographer, nonfiction writer, novelist and journalist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth14 August 1931
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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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?
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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.
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People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
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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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At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.