Quotes of Dennis Potter - somelinesforyou

“ . . . at this season, the blossom is out in full now, there in the west early. It's a plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it's white, and looking at it, instead of saying "Oh that's nice blossom" ... last week looking at it through the window when I'm writing, I see it is the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom that there ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were, and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn't seem to matter. But the nowness of everything is absolutely wondrous, and if people could see that, you know. There's no way of telling you; you have to experience it, but the glory of it, if you like, the comfort of it, the reassurance ... not that I'm interested in reassuring people bugger that. The fact is, if you see the present tense, boy do you see it! And boy can you celebrate it. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Everything we do has consequences. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Everything we do has consequences. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ 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

“ 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

“ Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ 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

“ 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

“ I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ 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

“ I think childhood is to everyone a lost land. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself. ”

- Dennis Potter

“ It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions. ”

- Dennis Potter
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