Dennis Potter Quotes
Dennis Potter Quotes
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A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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Everything we do has consequences.
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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
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It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
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Metaphor is embodied in language.
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People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
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Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
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The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.
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The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
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There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
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