Quotes by Dennis Potter - Page 1

Metaphor is embodied in language.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Language
Metaphor
Embodied
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Everything we do has consequences.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Everything
Consequences
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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Filth
Television
Mr
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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
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Childhood
Land
Thinking
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Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.
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Religion
Bandages
Wounds
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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Hierarchy
Ideals
Printed
Printed Word
Hierarchies
Jump
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
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Age
Has Beens
Talent
Aware
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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
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Art
Definitions
Letting
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
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Obscure
Too Much
To Love
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God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
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Lazy
Names
Thinking
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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Believe
I Believe
Responsible
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It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Access
Dangerous
Emotion
Instant
Dangerous Thing
Emotions
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Common
Culture
Vision
Remote
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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
About Yourself
Being Yourself
Order
Assert
Be Yourself
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A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.
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Helping
Knows
Shows
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.
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Knows
Mouths
Trouble
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
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Mouths
Trouble
Whose
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I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Given
Obligation
Talent
Use
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The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Improves
Surely
Tame
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You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
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Use
Writing
Young
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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Analysis
Beautiful
Creative
Myth
Therapy
Construct
Opposed
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Children
Poet
Puberty
Writing
Then
Poets
Reach
Unless
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
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Fear
Travel
Airports
Dread
Illness
Term
Terminal
Fully
Saw
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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Children
Creatures
Littles
Cruel
Extraordinarily
Yes
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Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Discourse
Disguise
Mask
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Adults
Callous
Enough
People
Adult
Enough People Know
Enough People
People Enough Know
Unthinkingly
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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
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Childhood
Fatherhood
Parcel
Personality
Symbols
Continually
Images
Part And Parcel
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Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.
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Believe
Handle
People
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The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
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Children
Humans
Loses
Necessarily
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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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Amazing
Leap
Metaphor
Speech
Writing
Strangest
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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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Criticism
Literacy
Displaced
Freud
Piece
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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.
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Imagination
Putting
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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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Endure
Excess
May
People
Corrupt
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The nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous. [...] If you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it.
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Boys
Celebrate
Wonderful
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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 create. They have their own yeast.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Bad Things
Done
Goodness
Way
Yeast
Creates
Fester
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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 terrors of childhood.
Dennis Potter / Dramatist
Childhood
Eden
Loss
Magic
Pain
Wonder
Experienced
Pains
Personally
Terrors
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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.
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Analysis
Critics
Fiction
Impulse
Writing
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We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.
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Long
Looks
Past
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I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.
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Dying
Regret
Single Mom
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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 they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal.
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Animal
Important Choices
Political
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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 above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit.
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Art
Believe
People
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