Dennis Potter Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Regret, Single Mom, Dying

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

  Dennis Potter

  Children, Littles, Creatures

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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.

  Dennis Potter

  Children, Humans, Loses

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• As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

  Dennis Potter

  People, Adults, Enough

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• Words themselves - the very material of our discourse increasingly take on masks or disguises

  Dennis Potter

  Mask, Disguise, Discourse

  Dennis Potter (1994). “Waiting for the Boat: On Television”, GuildAmerica Books

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

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  Age, Talent, Has Beens

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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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• Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

  Dennis Potter

  Printed Word, Hierarchy, Printed

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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.

  Dennis Potter

  Believe, People, Handle

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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.

  Dennis Potter

  Writing, Analysis, Fiction

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

  Dennis Potter

  Thinking, Names, Lazy

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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.

  Dennis Potter

  Imagination

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• Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

  Dennis Potter

  Television, Filth

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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.

  Dennis Potter

  People, Excess, May

  Dennis Potter (2015). “The Art of Invective: Selected Non-Fiction 1953–1994”, p.409, Oberon Books

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