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Everything we do has consequences.
— Dennis Potter
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
— Dennis Potter
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
— Dennis Potter
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
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
— Dennis Potter
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
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
— Dennis Potter
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
— Dennis Potter
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
— Dennis Potter
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
— Dennis Potter
Metaphor is embodied in language.
— Dennis Potter
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
— Dennis Potter
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
— Dennis Potter
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
— Dennis Potter
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
— Dennis Potter
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
— Dennis Potter
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
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
— Dennis Potter
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
— Dennis Potter
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
— Dennis Potter
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
— Dennis Potter
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.
— Dennis Potter
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
— Dennis Potter
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.
— Dennis Potter
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
— Dennis Potter
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
— Dennis Potter
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
— Dennis Potter
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
— Dennis Potter
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
— Dennis Potter
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
— 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.
— Dennis Potter
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