Michael Frayn quotes

To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell. (Michael Frayn)

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

Michael Frayn

You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong.

Michael Frayn

If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.

Michael Frayn

One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled "fog"...The motorist replies: "What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog."

Michael Frayn

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Michael Frayn

It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope.

Michael Frayn

The more you try to describe a dream the further it eludes your grasp, retreating before the advance of the words, growing cooler and cooler and paler and paler, until, when you have recorded it all, there is nothing of what it was really like left in your memory.

Michael Frayn

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.

Michael Frayn

Michael Frayn

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Occupation: English Playwright
Born: September 8, 1933
Quotes count: 9
Wikipedia: Michael Frayn

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