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Dennis Potter Quotes
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Type: Dramatist Quotes Category: British Dramatist Quotes Date of Birth: May 17, 1935 Date of Death: June 7, 1994 Nationality: British Find on Amazon: Dennis Potter Related Authors: George Bernard Shaw William Shakespeare Oscar Wilde Pierre Corneille Friedrich Schiller Tennessee Williams Anton Chekhov Zora Neale Hurston |
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 yeast.
Dennis Potter As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. Dennis Potter As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. Dennis Potter Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. Dennis Potter Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. Dennis Potter Everything we do has consequences. Dennis Potter God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names. Dennis Potter I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. Dennis Potter I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. Dennis Potter I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent. Dennis Potter I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. Dennis Potter I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. Dennis Potter Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word. Dennis Potter It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. Dennis Potter Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. Dennis Potter Metaphor is embodied in language. 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. 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 Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. Dennis Potter Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. Dennis Potter That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness. Dennis Potter The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. Dennis Potter 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 of childhood. Dennis Potter The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself. Dennis Potter 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 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 The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in. Dennis Potter Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. Dennis Potter 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. Dennis Potter To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. Dennis Potter You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself. Dennis Potter |
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