People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

Quote by Dennis Potter

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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...

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.

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...

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.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

Metaphor is embodied in language.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there...

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there...

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

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...

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.

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

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

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.

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 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...