Dennis Potter Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
• The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
• Everything we do has consequences.
• As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
• Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
• Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
• God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
• I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
• I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
• I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
• I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
• Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
• 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.
• Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
• 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…
• Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
• Metaphor is embodied in language.
• Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

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