Metaphor is embodied in language.

Quote by Dennis Potter

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

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

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

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

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor....

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor....

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have...

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have...

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

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

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write...

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write...

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

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

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only...

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only...

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It...

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It...

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

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

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

Everything we do has consequences.

Everything we do has consequences.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave...

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave...

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.