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
people vices form
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.
grapes labor television whatever
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
fiction stranger truer truth
Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer
mean son years
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.
writing fiction stranger
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.
war fall history
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.
party literature may
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.
morning evening crafts
Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.
communication arguing ethics
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.
chinese television tvs
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.
opposites velvet television
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.
ideas television ends
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?
should-have ideas america
As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
war years lasts
At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.