Dennis Potter Quotes

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Dennis Potter

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : May 17, 1935

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Dennis Potter

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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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

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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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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

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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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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

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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 more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

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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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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

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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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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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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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