All Dennis Potter Quotes
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
Dennis Potter
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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
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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
Dennis Potter
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
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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
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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
Dennis Potter
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
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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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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.
Dennis Potter
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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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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.
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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
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