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.
- Dennis Potter
Work, Tell, Fiction, Impulse
Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.
- Dennis Potter
Art, Bad, Letting, Definitions
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
Childhood, Magic, Eden, Terrors
Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures.
- Dennis Potter
Children, Cruel, Very, Extraordinarily
I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.
- Dennis Potter
Myself, Understand, Saw, Fully
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
- Dennis Potter
More, Very, Unthinkingly, Enough People
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.
- Dennis Potter
Own, Bad, Will, Yeast
You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.
- Dennis Potter
Be Yourself, Yourself, About, Assert
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
- Dennis Potter
Kind, Literacy, Piece, Freud
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
- Dennis Potter
Amazing, Speech, Metaphor, Strangest
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
- Dennis Potter
Children, Stop, Unless, Puberty
Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
- Dennis Potter
Across, Printed, Ideals, Hierarchies
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
Deal, Corrupt, May, Excess
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
- Dennis Potter
Love, See, Obscure, To Love
I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.
- Dennis Potter
Talent, Use, Given, Obligation
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
- Dennis Potter
Work, More, Surely, Tame
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.
- Dennis Potter
Beautiful, Myth, Opposed, Analysis
It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions.
- Dennis Potter
Emotions, Access, Dangerous, Instant
Everything we do has consequences.
- Dennis Potter
Everything, Consequences
Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality.
- Dennis Potter
Childhood, Some, Images, Parcel
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
- Dennis Potter
Think, New, Even, Names
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
- Dennis Potter
Culture, Vision, Common, Remote
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
Believe, Know, Either, Handle
I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.
- Dennis Potter
Themselves, Everybody, Responsible
Metaphor is embodied in language.
- Dennis Potter
Language, Embodied, Metaphor
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
- Dennis Potter
Words, Never, Been, Mouths
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