British - Dramatist | May 17, 1935 - June 7, 1994
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
Dennis Potter
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
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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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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
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You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
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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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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
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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.
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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 more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
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