26 Quotes by Frederic Raphael

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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