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Dennis Potter [1935-1994] British

Rank: 102
Dramatist, Television screenwriter

Dennis Christopher George Potter was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist.
After standing for parliament as a Labour candidate at the 1964 general election, his health was affected by the onset of psoriatic arthropathy which led to him becoming a playwright.

Amazing, Imagination, Poetry

Quote	Tags	Rank
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.		101
I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.		102
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.	Imagination	103
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.		104
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.		105
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.		106
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?	Amazing	107
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.		108
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.	Poetry	109
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.		110
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.		111
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.		112
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.		113
Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.		114
People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.		115
Metaphor is embodied in language.		116
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.		117
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.		118
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.		119
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.		120
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.		121
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.		122
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.		123
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.		124
Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.		125
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.		126
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.		201
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.		202
I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.		203
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.		204
Everything we do has consequences.		205

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