Everything we do has consequences.

Quote by Dennis Potter

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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.

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.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

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...

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....

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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 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...

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very...

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people...

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people...

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

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

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

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

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

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

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