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Frederic Raphael
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Quotes by Frederic Raphael
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Talk isn’t work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn’t have in the morning.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.
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At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.
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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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