"People endure what they endure and they deal……" — 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."
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38 Quotes by Dennis Potter
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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…
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Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them, and not just say, 'Oh,…
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
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Everything we do has consequences.
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
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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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