Michael Frayn Quotes

Michael Frayn, FRSL is an English playwright and novelist. He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy. His novels, such as Towards the End of the Morning, Headlong and Spies, have also been critical and commercial successes, making him one of the handful of writers in the English language to succeed in both drama and prose fiction. He has also written philosophical works, such as The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe . Wikipedia

✵ 8. September 1933

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The Tin Men

The Tin Men

Michael Frayn

The Tin Men

The Tin Men

Michael Frayn

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Famous Michael Frayn Quotes

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

Clockwise (1986), cited from Malcolm Page File on Frayn (London: Methuen, 1994) p. 65.

“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 book The Tin Men

The Tin Men (London: Collins, 1965) p. 59.

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

James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.

“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."”

James Fenton (ed.) The Original Michael Frayn (Edinburgh: Salamander Press, 1983) p. 67.

“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.”

The Observer, August 8, 1965.

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