Dennis Potter Quotes
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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
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Everything we do has consequences.
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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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The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
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A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
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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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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
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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 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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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
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Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal.
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Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
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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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I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.
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Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
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We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.
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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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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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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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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
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It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
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Metaphor is embodied in language.
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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
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