All Dennis Potter Quotes
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
Dennis Potter
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The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
Dennis Potter
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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
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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
Dennis Potter
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
Dennis Potter
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As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
Dennis Potter
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It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
Dennis Potter
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Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Dennis Potter
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
Dennis Potter
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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
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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.
Dennis Potter
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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
Dennis Potter
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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
Dennis Potter
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