Metaphor is embodied in language.

Quote by Dennis Potter

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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 believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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....

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 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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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