26 Quotes by Frederic Raphael

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

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.

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

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

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

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer

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

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.

Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.