Dennis Potter quotes

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? (Dennis Potter)
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. View quote
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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. View quote
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. View quote
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. View quote
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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. View quote
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Everything we do has consequences. View quote
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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. View quote
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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. View quote
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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. View quote
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. (Dennis Potter)
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. View quote
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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. View quote
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The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself. View quote
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness. View quote
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Metaphor is embodied in language. View quote
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. View quote
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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. View quote
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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. View quote
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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names. View quote
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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. (Dennis Potter)
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent. View quote
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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. View quote
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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word. View quote
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It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. View quote
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