I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it. Dennis Potter More Quotes by Dennis Potter More Quotes From Dennis Potter I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself. Dennis Potter airportsfeartravel We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there. Dennis Potter longlookspast The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in. Dennis Potter troublemouthsknows Politics is still crucially important. Our choices are vital, and we've got to make them and not just say, 'Oh they're all the same.' They are all the same in certain ways, alas - a political animal is such an animal. Dennis Potter politicalanimalimportant-choices Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. Dennis Potter analysiscreativebeautiful That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness. Dennis Potter visioncommonculture Religion has always been the wound, not the bandage. Dennis Potter bandageswoundsreligion Metaphor is embodied in language. Dennis Potter metaphorlanguage I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit. Dennis Potter believepeopleart To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. Dennis Potter obscuretoo-much You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. Dennis Potter useyoungwriting Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality. Dennis Potter childhoodfatherhoodpersonality 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 painedenloss 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 loseshumanschildren Everything we do has consequences. Dennis Potter consequence 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 excessmaypeople Television's Mr. Filth: that's me. Dennis Potter filthtelevision Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art. Dennis Potter definitionsart 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 analysiswritingfiction As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous. Dennis Potter adultsenoughpeople
