Believe Quote by 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

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“My only regret is to die four pages too soon.”

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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

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Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

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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…

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

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Metaphor is embodied in language.

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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

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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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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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I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

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