We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please… — Dennis Potter Copy Share
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. — Dennis Potter Copy Share
Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises — Dennis Potter Copy Share
The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and… — Dennis Potter Copy Share
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. — Dennis Potter Copy Share
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. — Dennis Potter Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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 Copy Share
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. — Dennis Potter Copy Share
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 Copy Share
