Dennis Potter Quotes

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

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  Travel, Fear, Airports

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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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  Past, Long, Looks

  Dennis Potter, Melvyn Bragg (1994). “An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994”

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• A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

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  Helping, Shows, Knows

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• Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage.

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  Religion, Bandages, Wounds

  Dennis Potter, Melvyn Bragg (1994). “An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994”

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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

  "An interview with Dennis Potter: an edited transcript of Melvyn Bragg's interview with Dennis Potter, broadcast on the 5th of April 1994".

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• The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

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  Mouths, Trouble, Knows

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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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• 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.

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  Pain, Loss, Eden

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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, Wonderful, Celebrate

  "We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense". Interview with Melvyn Bragg, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 1994.

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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

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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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  Use, Talent, Given

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• Metaphor is embodied in language.

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  Language, Metaphor

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• You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.

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  Writing, Use, Young

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• Everything we do has consequences.

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  Consequence

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• I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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  Thinking, Land, Childhood

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

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  Beautiful, Creative, Analysis

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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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  Writing, Speech, Metaphor

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

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  Vision, Culture, Common

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

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  Art, Definitions

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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.

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  Done, Yeast, Way

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

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  Being Yourself, Order, About Yourself

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

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

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  Emotion, Dangerous, Instant

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• Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

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  Children, Writing, Poet

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

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  Too Much, Obscure

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