Dennis Potter Quotes - BrainyQuote

British - Dramatist May 17, 1935 - June 7, 1994

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Amazing Writing Speech Create

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Childhood Think Lost Everyone

Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.

Personality Childhood Words Will

Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.

Children Cruel Yes Little

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Myself Understand Illness Did

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

You Words Never Know

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

You Be Yourself Yourself Something

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

Love See Too Much Obscure

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.

Work You End Tell

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

Beautiful Creative Therapy Myth

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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Truth Imagination Down Own

The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.

Work Myself More Tame

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.

Childhood Magic Loss Wonder

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Knowledge Lose Child Something

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Culture Vision Now Simply

Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

Me Television Filth Mr

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

You Religion Believe Know

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

People Endure Lead Corrupt

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Language Metaphor Embodied

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Art Bad Just Out

It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.

Dangerous Emotions Your Thing

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Jump Word Ideals Printed

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

You Talent Your Use

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

Age Talent Been Aware

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Believe I Believe Responsible

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

God Think New Lazy

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