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Dennis Potter
British
Dramatist
About the author
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,
British
Dramatist
#Wonder
#Magic
#Childhood
#Loss
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Work
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,
British
Dramatist
#People
#May
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,
British
Dramatist
#Imagination
#Act
#Truth
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Myth
#Therapy
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Words
#Trouble
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,
British
Dramatist
#Work
#End
#Fiction
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Order
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,
British
Dramatist
#Writing
#Speech
#Metaphor
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
Metaphor is embodied in language.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Language
#Metaphor
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Love
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#People
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,
British
Dramatist
#Will
#Act
#Goodness
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Children
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Children
#Poetry
#Poets
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#God
#Writer
#Names
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Writing
#Criticism
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Illness
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Age
#Talent
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Land
#Childhood
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Talent
#Obligation
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Word
#Ideals
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Emotions
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Art
Everything we do has consequences.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Consequences
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,
British
Dramatist
#Knowledge
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,
British
Dramatist
#Religion
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Words
#Will
#Childhood
#Personality
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Television
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
Dennis Potter,
British
Dramatist
#Now
#Vision
#Culture