Best Dennis Potter Quotes
- It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. Access
- Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe. Believe
- Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word. Across
- That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness. Common
- People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses. All
- The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. Child
- Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. Art
- Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage. Bandage
- To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. Inspirational
- You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. Anybody
- I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but… Alcohol
- The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. Been
- As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. Best