Dennis Potter

Dramatist

United Kingdom

1935 - 1994

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The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
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As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
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I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
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Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
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Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
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That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
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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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Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
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