Dennis Potter Quotes

• 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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• La política sigue siendo crucial. Nuestras elecciones son vitales, y tenemos que tomarlas y no limitarnos a decir: "Oh, todos son iguales". Por desgracia, todos son iguales en ciertos aspectos: un animal político es un 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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• La religión siempre ha sido la herida, no la venda.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Dennis Potter

  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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• 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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• Everything we do has consequences.

  Dennis Potter

  Consecuencia

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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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• 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 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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• 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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  Arte, Creer, Gente

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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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• 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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• Un acto mal hecho se enconará y creará a su manera. No sólo la bondad crea. Las cosas malas crean. Tienen su propia levadura.

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  Done, Yeast, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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