British - Dramatist | May 17, 1935 - June 7, 1994
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.
Dennis Potter
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
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Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.
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Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
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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.
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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.
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Metaphor is embodied in language.
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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
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It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
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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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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
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